Re: RFC: new network config (was: Re: network configuration)

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Alexander Koch <efraim@argh.org> writes:

> On Sun, 7 February 1999 15:47:33 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > My only problem with making it easy to parse like this, is that it might
> > turn out too limiting (when we start supporting IPv6, in particular).

> As I am just in the progress of building an ipv6site (6bone) and
> will need to get some things to work (no, patch, actually) I
> would say we should be quite careful in what config files we may
> use and in what way it should be a "universal" (sp?) parser.

Note that you only need to configure IPv6 routers.  (tunnel endpoints,
gateways, etc.)  IPv6 clients are supposed to autoconfigure.  (IPv6
routers have to run radvd.)


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu