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Re: ipv6 project involvement

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Old 02-22-2008, 12:21 PM
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Default Re: ipv6 project involvement

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:20:12PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Ronnel P. Maglasang <rmaglasang@infoweapons.com> wrote:
>
> > Guys, I wanted to get involve in IPv6 related projects(e.g. adding
> > IPv6 function to existing programs). Please let me know how and
> > whom to contact. Probably a list of on-going IPv6 related projects.

>
> There are a variety of programs in the ports tree that rely on IPv4
> mapped addresses to simultaneously provide IPv4 and v6 services and
> where we consequently had to disable v6 support. Somebody adding
> proper support to these programs to listen on separate sockets would
> be much appreciated. Off the top of my head, audio/esound, net/irc,
> and net/uucp suffer from this.
>
> In the base system, the last major missing piece is v6 support for
> all RPC-based services.
>
> IPv6 support in bgpd is still incomplete, I think.
> As ospfd comes together, some might wonder about OSPFv3 support.
>
> In the kernel area, we don't support MLD, I think.


syslogd(8) does not have v6 support.
http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query...s&numbers=2796

There is also an issue with pppctl(8) and v6..
http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query...s&numbers=2780
http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query...s&numbers=3570
http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query...s&numbers=3751

and userland ppp/pppd (and kernel sppp layer) do not have v6 support.

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