Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:24:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990722132339.21011D-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199907220822.KAA11656@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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they ARE doing it, but they haven't got the merged TCP stack quite right they are not publically anouncing anything till it works... On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, John Hay wrote: > 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... > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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