From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17860 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Jun 2003 19:43:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4893 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2003 19:43:45 -0000 From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: Gentoo-Dev Cc: wmertens@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20030601124848.GA3456@gonzo.peterjohanson.com> References: <20030601032902.GA3769@gonzo.peterjohanson.com> <20030601055612.GA14530@cherenkov.orbis-terrarum.net> <20030531231311.027ad8ad.seemant@gentoo.org> <20030601124848.GA3456@gonzo.peterjohanson.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-2NcDCao0HTPjt19wkxmf" Organization: Message-Id: <1055533370.10191.18.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 13 Jun 2003 21:42:50 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IPv6 support in network initscripts X-Archives-Salt: 6b60cff0-7d6b-4c2d-b408-8b73a9fcdbaa X-Archives-Hash: 1486c26505b81d05f021b30099e96846 --=-2NcDCao0HTPjt19wkxmf Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > there's something which occurs to me -- in /etc/rc.conf there is a way = to specify which protocols you allow. Do our net scripts already have ipv6= support, I wonder? or is that stuff in rc.conf for some other purpose? > >=20 > I've never seen anything which actually sources rc.conf and uses the > PROTOCOL variable in any way. I have no idea why that's there. anybody > enlighten me? >=20 Right. It got missing/never implemented somewhere. The point is that things are inefficient in current state. There has been a lot of talk, and a lot of ideas in the past, but nobody ever came through. I can do the logic, but I am not a network guru, or have the hardware/resources to add support for every kind of network option out there. And besides ... what happened to clear cut so that the user could hack in whatever he wanted with ease ... but I guess we are too far down this road to look back now 8) Anyhow, an idea that has been floating around, is to still have only a net., but protocols/routing/whatever is supported via modules. Meaning, if you want only ipv4, you just say in the config that net.eth0 should support ipv4. Same with dhcp/ipv6/whatever. The problem is however, we need a clearcut design, need to decide how to handle failures, etc - rewriting it every 6 months should not be an option, so we should get the design right from day one. Anyhow, just me rambling. Regards, --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-2NcDCao0HTPjt19wkxmf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+6ik2qburzKaJYLYRAr6MAJ93OdFEKPU0Fzzk3nn0LgGAit78awCfeQGS oMl89HmFuv3VoVtLk+d6NUU= =z0fB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-2NcDCao0HTPjt19wkxmf--