Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 03:50:50 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org>, obrien@NUXI.com, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6 in -current Message-ID: <23723.910007450@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 03:41:26 PST." <199811021141.DAA01931@implode.root.com>
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> I actually would like to see a more thorough integration with the standard > tools being able to deal with both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously. It probably > makes sense to hold off on doing that work until KAME becomes a standard part > of the system, however - doing so now would make it a lot more difficult to > track FreeBSD-current. Yeah, if I had my druthers (and what the hell are "druthers" anyway, and who here has ever had any that they knew of? Why is English such a peculiar language? And why... Erm, excuse me, I guess that's not really important right now), I'd want to see the IPv6 bits integrated with the following provisos: 1. If you make the world with NOIPV6, the tools are built in the traditional fashion without any support for IPv6 at all. This would let the solution-in-a-box folks continue to compile binaries with the smallest possible footprint, assuming that some of them will have no need for IPv6. 2. If a binary (like ping) has been compiled with both v4/v6 support and you simply want to turn its IPv6 behavior off for some reason, it should check a well-known environment variable from its main() to switch the relevant code in and out. Purists might even argue that IPv6 should be turned off by default and only enabled through such an environment variable (or compiler flag) rather than the other way around. I guess I don't care either way so long as IPv6 eventually, at the suitable time, becomes a desirable out-of-box default for FreeBSD. 3. It interoperates with the other *BSDs and whatever form of IPv6 they've chosen. I also agree that I don't think we can fence-sit on this one too much longer, as much as I also *hate* the idea of alienating some other group of hard-working IPv6 people. Not all decisions are either easy or avoidable. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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