Re: Status of IPv6 in d-i?
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:48, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> Offhand from IRC discussions I believe we need:
>
> (1) ensure wget in busybox (-cvs?) is built with IPv6 support.
> (2) choose-mirror works sensibly to select IPv6 mirrors
> (3) (bigger) netcfg tries IPv6, tries to autoconfig
> (ping local net?) if this works, sets a debconf flag so that
> choose-mirror, etc. select from IPv6 hosts.
Actually, that doesn't have to be such a hassle. Provided a Router
Advertisement Daemon (radvd under Linux) is running for your local
network, the kernel will autoconfigure itself, without userland help;
also, globally-addressable IPv6 addresses are easy to distinguish: if
the IP address starts with 0x3ffe or 0x200, it's globally addressable
(although the first is deprecated, and may disappear soon).
It's probably better to distinguish using a negative list than to
distinguish using a positive list, though. -ipv6: Isn't it better to say
"if the IP starts with 0xf, or is ::1 it's *not* globally addressable"?
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