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Date:      Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:22:30 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??
Message-ID:  <199907220822.KAA11656@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990721120817.19234C-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Jul 21, 1999 12:16:22 pm"

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Are you just teasing or are you serious?

I searched through their site (again), but except for being mentioned
in their TODO for the past few months, I can't find anything that
indicates that they or anyone else is working on it. They may be, but
it isn't visible anywhere where I have looked. It would be nice if
there was some place to follow their progress, because I'm also one
of the people that would like to see IPv6 integrated into FreeBSD.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za

> 
> 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...




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