Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:16:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990721120817.19234C-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19990721102534.A8848@dragon.nuxi.com>
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FreeBSD will have native IPV6 within a matter of weeks at this stage..
the code is being readied as we speak. see www.kame.net . 3 sets of
developers for FreeBSD IPV6 have merged their efforts and the result of
this should be available by the end of summer (Northern). (which isn't
far away now..)
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, David O'Brien wrote:
> So is FreeBSD *EVER* going to see native IPv6 ??
> I attended a talk by a group of Intrusion Detection researchers. They
> were basing their research on FreeBSD because they needed divert
> sockets and found FreeBSD worked perfectly for this in this respect.
> However, once they needed IPv6 and IPsec guess what happened??? They
> moved to Linux and now have such a time investment in their custom kernel
> hacks FreeBSD will never be an option for them again.
>
> NetBSD and OpenBSD get more and more coverage from IPv6/IPsec
> capabilities every day. FreeBSD has lost considerable ground if we want
> to be a platform of choice for network and security researchers.
>
> Now ever LSOF has IPv6 support for NetBSD and OpenBSD...
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Vic Abell <abe@purdue.edu> -----
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:53:51 -0500
> Subject: 64 bit lsof for Solaris 7; IPv6 support for {Net,Open}BSD
>
>
> IPv6 Support for {Net,Open}BSD
> ==============================
> ..snip..
>
> An lsof 4.45 pre-release distribution of the NetBSD and OpenBSD
> sources with the IPv6 updates is available at:
>
> ..snip..
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> --
> -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
>
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