Re: General support for IPv6 out of the box in Debian
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> In message <[🔎] Pine.GSO.3.96LJ1.1b7.1000411145800.23884A-100000@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca
> >Hmmm...Is that in the kernel yet? Also, how "advanced" is the IPv6 code
> >in the kernel? Anyone?
>
> Reasonably advanced. Actually, the main stumbling block in deploying IPv6
> "for real" is likely to be that glibc 2.1 doesn't support all of the new APIs
> needed for IPv6 -- there is no getipnodebyname(), for example, and
> sin6_scope_id is missing. Most of these deficiencies have been fixed in glibc
> 2.2 though obviously more volunteers are always welcome to help.
This discussion has been very informative to me, I appreciate all your
comments. I will try to summarize what I have learned here.
On the technical side, we have:
1) The kernel is good enough
2) glibc 2.1 is missing some API functions
3) not possible to build packages from several diffs on different servers.
4) In principle, any debian user can connect to freenet6 easily
2) doesn't seem so bad, glibc 2.2 will be out someday, and we do have some
packages working with glibc 2.1.
3) could possibly be overcome by non-technical means.
If 4) is not the case, that would be an important area to work on. It
would also, as mentioned, be good to have a debian package that automates
the process. I think if it was easier to try it out, more debian people
would become interested in IPv6.
On the project side, we have:
1) reluctance from upstream authors to introduce IPv6
2) maintainers are not always knowledgeable of IPv6
3) not enough people working on the debian-ipv6 project
Improving the debian-ipv6 project page could adress 2) and 3).
It might also be a good idea to get in touch with maintainers of debian
packages that have an IPv6-specific counterpart and offer help.
Is this a correct description of the current situation? Have I missed some
issues?
btw it is not necessary to Cc: me, since I follow this list quite closely.
Regards,
Pontus
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