In your previous mail you wrote:
I'm running both - as opposed to running one and playing with the other.
Unfortunately much still needs to be done before I can run IPv6 only.
- standard DNS support in Solaris is still mainly IPv4;
=> you can use BIND 9 and the Solaris resolver knows IPv6
(HINT: add dns in the ipnodes line (not only hosts) in /etc/nsswitch.conf)
- DHCP support for IPv6 still work-in-progress;
=> what do you need exactly (it seems DHCPv6 should solve an undefined
problem so we are at the version 18 of the draft and still moving)?
- RPC (and hence NFS) unworkable (seemingly) under IPv6 on anything without
rpcbind/portmap v3 protocol - i.e. Linux, *BSD.
=> we (me and mainly Jean-Luc Richier) have hacked the old RPC/NFS for IPv6
and rehacked it (for compat) when TI-RPC was adapted by Sun people to IPv6.
It worked/works on FreeBSD 3.x and NetBSD 1.4, there is a special version
for FreeBSD 4.x (including 4.3) but TI-RPC with IPv6 has been ported to
NetBSD 1.5 and FreeBSD 5.0-current. I don't know for OpenBSD or BSD/OS.
What is Linux (:-)?
If anyone's got comments on the last bit above, I'd be interested to hear
them. As far as I can determine, a fairly large piece of work will be
required with the RPC stuff on Linux/FreeBSD etc. before we get NFS to work
over IPv6.
=> this issue is already solved for some platforms and should be solved
on every platforms very soon. Of course the main reason to support IPv6
for RPC is NFS...
There are two other missing stuffs:
- IPv6 support in X11 (we have an old code for XFree86 3.x, it should be
ported/reworked for XFree86 4.x with the new modular stuff)
- IPv6 support for the Web (Apache people moved to IPv6 in the last beta,
in previous apache versions you can get IPv6 patches but they always are
incompatible with other goodies like mod_ssl, the browser problem is
still not fixed simply because there are not enough good browsers available
with sources...).
Regards
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