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diff --git a/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6.mdwn b/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6.mdwn
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@@ -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
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+
+### 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