Re: ipv6 on hurd

To: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>
Cc: Debian IPv6 Mailing List <debian-ipv6@lists.debian.org>, debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ipv6 on hurd
From: kilobug@freesurf.fr (Gaël Le Mignot)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:39:09 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.44.0210230848270.10592-100000@trider-g7.ext.fabbione.net> (Fabio Massimo Di Nitto's message of "Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:54:42 +0200 (CEST)")
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Fabio a écrit : 

 > Hi all,

Hi

 > 	does anyone know how the hurd kernel 

The Hurd is not a kernel, it's a collection of servers running in user-space
as normal processes in top of a micro-kernel.
 
 > handles ipv4/ipv6 socket??
 > Does it work similar to the linux kernel (ipv6 bind listen both ipv6 and
 > ipv4) or like *BSD (ipv6 is a standalone bind)???

We have no IPv6 implementation right now. The current tcp/ip stack (the pfinet
server) is IPv4 only, but a redesign and reimplementation of this stack is
in progress.

 > Sorry if it is a dumb question but I don't have resources (yet) to play
 > with hurd.

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