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diff --git a/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6.mdwn b/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6.mdwn index d30cc850..edd31017 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6.mdwn @@ -70,3 +70,27 @@ Amongst other things, support for [[IOCTL]]s is missing. <braunr> ok <braunr> i'd like to set this up on my VMs but it looks bugged :/ <braunr> i can't manage to set correctly set the gateway + + +### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-12-12 + + <braunr> hm, pfinet seems not to support ipv6 well at all :( + <pinotree> braunr: really? + <braunr> pinotree: i can't manage to set a global address statically and + make it communicate with neighbours + <braunr> pfinet receives the advertisement (during neighbour discovery) but + immediately resends the same solicitation again + <gnu_srs> According to the pfinet/README IPv6 support was added in 2007 + from Linux 2.2.14 while the rest is from 2.2.12 + <braunr> according to me, bugs were added at the same time + <braunr> :p + <braunr> in addition, ipv6 in linux 2.2 was, uh, not working well either + <braunr> even with 2.4, it was still messy + <gnu_srs> maybe we should try to upgrade the TCP/IP stack to something + 2.6+? + <gnu_srs> (a lot of work though) + <braunr> we've already had that discussion + <gnu_srs> Yes. What is the best way forward, a GSoC task? + <gnu_srs> There is one already: + http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.html + <braunr> personally, i'd advocate resuing code from netbsd |