From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6855 invoked by uid 1002); 1 Jun 2003 12:46:53 -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 24565 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2003 12:46:53 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 08:49:14 -0400 From: Peter Johanson To: Seemant Kulleen Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030601124848.GA3456@gonzo.peterjohanson.com> Mail-Followup-To: Seemant Kulleen , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030601032902.GA3769@gonzo.peterjohanson.com> <20030601055612.GA14530@cherenkov.orbis-terrarum.net> <20030531231311.027ad8ad.seemant@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030531231311.027ad8ad.seemant@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IPv6 support in network initscripts X-Archives-Salt: 792dbd89-ca7d-4767-aac3-464f37e72b0e X-Archives-Hash: 4224e9a1bebcb28e517fe2884b8a1058 --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:13:11PM -0700, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > 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 s= upport, 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? Our current scripts (in the stable baselayout, not sure about ~arch) lets you specify inet6_ethX in the /etc/conf.d/net file, and adds that alias to the device. In reality, there are three different ways to configure the IPv6 attributes of a device. First, you can configure everything by hand. Setting an IP, default route, etc. IPv6 also specificies the existance of autoconfiguration via "Router Advertisement." This is basically a stateless, automatic "DHCP-like" configuration. Thirdly, there is specification for a stateful configuration using DHCPv6. Our initscript *should* be made to account for all of these possiblities. Doing this well might get a little messy though. >=20 > --=20 > Seemant Kulleen > Developer and Project Co-ordinator, > Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~seemant >=20 > Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0x34587= 80E > Key fingerprint =3D 23A9 7CB5 9BBB 4F8D 549B 6593 EDA2 65D8 3458 780E --=20 Peter Johanson --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+2fZKhklDm276ORcRAopcAJ46iSFxuW3amO6bdJZkIj1hhEaqbwCg5DIh 84uNP6dgC50ThQLaSg39KPk= =m4KV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y--