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| author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2007-10-09 10:14:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2007-10-09 10:14:10 +0200 |
| commit | 34daa1c14ec24276e6387a4d89646708bd10dfe5 (patch) | |
| tree | 809b860d422b6c709766728f634653cd8aec82c9 | |
| parent | dcc3ddff7499aa9572f59646865cdf032e62a83c (diff) | |
Refactor, now that the work has been installed upstream.
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6.mdwn | 26 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6.mdwn b/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6.mdwn index 0478fc31..ca1132db 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6.mdwn @@ -6,16 +6,20 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl.txt]]."]] -[[Stefan_Siegl|stesie]] has contributed some -[patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-10/msg00014.html), -making the pfinet server IPv6-aware. Because the IPv4 and IPv6 protocols are +[[Stefan_Siegl|stesie]] has added IPv6 support to the pfinet [[translator]]. +This was [Savannah task #5470](http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5470). + + +# Implementation + +Because the IPv4 and IPv6 protocols are quite related to each other (think of mapped IPv4 addresses, etc.), there is no separate [[server|translator]] for IPv6 but support for the latter has been incorporated into the common pfinet. Unfortunately it's a little bit clumsy now to set the [[translator]] up, since it has to be bound to */servers/socket/2* (like before) as well as */servers/socket/26* (for IPv6). -To achieve this, you can tell pfinet6 to install [[active_translators|active]] +To achieve this, you can tell pfinet to install [[active_translators|active]] on specified nodes, using **-4** and **-6** options. This is, you have to install a [[passive_translator|passive]] on */servers/socket/2* that also binds the IPv6 port and vice versa. @@ -27,26 +31,28 @@ Normal IPv4 network setup, address 192.168.7.23/24 and gateway 192.168.7.1. IPv6 address shall be assigned using IPv6 auto-configuration. settrans -fgp /servers/socket/2 ↩ - /hurd/pfinet6 -6 /servers/socket/26 ↩ + /hurd/pfinet -6 /servers/socket/26 ↩ -i eth0 -a 192.168.7.23 -m 255.255.255.0 -g 192.168.7.1 settrans -fgp /servers/socket/26 ↩ - /hurd/pfinet6 -4 /servers/socket/2 ↩ + /hurd/pfinet -4 /servers/socket/2 ↩ -i eth0 -a 192.168.7.23 -m 255.255.255.0 -g 192.168.7.1 Quite the same, but with static IPv6 address assignment: settrans -fgp /servers/socket/2 ↩ - /hurd/pfinet6 -6 /servers/socket/26 ↩ + /hurd/pfinet -6 /servers/socket/26 ↩ -i eth0 -a 192.168.7.23 -m 255.255.255.0 -g 192.168.7.1 ↩ -A 2001:4b88:10e4:0:216:3eff:feff:4223/64 -G 2001:4b88:10e4::1 settrans -fgp /servers/socket/26 ↩ - /hurd/pfinet6 -4 /servers/socket/2 ↩ + /hurd/pfinet -4 /servers/socket/2 ↩ -i eth0 -a 192.168.7.23 -m 255.255.255.0 -g 192.168.7.1 ↩ -A 2001:4b88:10e4:0:216:3eff:feff:4223/64 -G 2001:4b88:10e4::1 # Binaries -For your convenience there are binaries of a patched (multicast reception) GNU Mach kernel (including -default driver set and debugging support) and a stripped pfinet6 at +For your convenience -- this work is not yet available in the Debian packages +-- binaries of a patched (multicast reception) GNU Mach kernel (including +default driver set and debugging support) and a stripped pfinet translator +(named `pfinet6` here) are being provided at <http://brokenpipe.de/GnuHurd/pfinet6/> |