Hi, I thought that USAGI was already included in the 2.6 kernel. Have I missed something?
Cheers, Jonne. On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 22:28, ext Lawrence Hughes wrote: > To the Linux folks having problems, please check out > www.linux-ipv6.org . This is home > of the USAGI project (part of WIDE project in Japan, headed by Dr. Jun > Murai). Following > this is the description of USAGI from this site. > > Note that WIDE also does the KAME IPv6 stack, which is included by > default in *BSD. > It is the best and most complete IPv6 I have run across. USAGI is an > attempt to provide > the same basic functionality for Linux, although they seem to run a > bit behind KAME. > > To those who don't speak Japanese, you may be interested to learn that > Kame means > "turtle", and Usagi means "hare". I fyou know your Aesop, you will > understand why > the "turtle" is ahead in this race. ;-) The expansion of USAGI as an > acronym is > clearly an after-the-fact rationalization, and would make it USAGIP > anyway. > > If it is an option for you, we have found by experience that FreeBSD & > OpenBSD are > better and more complete for IPv6 work than Linux as is, or even Linux > with USAGI > stack. Please no flames from Linux fans! The KAME stack is recognized > worldwide > as the reference implementation of IPv6, and WIDE has done an amazing > amount of > really quality work on it, and I am stating this as my opinion, based > on research and > testing. > > If your Linux distro happens to already include the USAGI stack, you > can ignore this > message. Any real Linux gurus out there - do you know of any distros > that do include > USAGI by default? If not, any experience using the Linux stack as is, > or the USAGI > stack? If it USAGI is not already included by default, perhaps you can > encourage > your favorite distro to include it? > > Description from USAGI site follows: > > Currently we have an IPv6 implementation in Linux kernel source tree. > Only enabling "Internet Protocol Version 6" option in the Networking > section, we can enjoy IPv6 life. > > However, once you begin to use IPv6 on Linux box, you will soon be > aware that the implementation have some problems... Because an > existing Linux implementation is too old and not so well-tested, it > has many bugs and unimplemented functions. > > Then we decided to start USAGI Project(UniverSAl playGround for Ipv6 > Project) with WIDE Project, KAME Project and TAHI Project. The project > aim to improve IPv6 environment on Linux and deploy the IPv6 Internet > on the world. We've started to hack the kernel, libraries and > applications aggressively and will provide our product freely for > Linux and IPv6 community. In the near future we would contribute and > merge our code into the main trunks of Linux kernel and glibc. > > Because of the contribution for main trunks, we have a policy that we > don't make and accept changes which depend on Linux distributions. > Instead the policy, we will provide binary packages for Linux > distributions on every stable release. Let's try out USAGI IPv6 > environment with us !! > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bellino, Phil > Sent: Wed 4/6/2005 12:33 AM > To: Users-IPv6; Users-Usagi; Users-Deepspace > Subject: Trouble with 2.6.11 Linux > > > > Hello, > > I have a 2.6.5 Linux running router radvd. > I also have 2.6.5 clients(and a 2.4.20 client) that accept the router > advertisements from the router and acquire a Link-Global address and > also autoconfigures their Link-Local address. > > Their configs: > ipv6.conf.eth0.accept_ra=1 > ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra=1 > ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra=1 > > I have a 2.6.11 client host that does not accept any router > advertisements even though it's config is the same as above. (I have > compared the "sysctl -a" output on both the 2.6.5 and 2.6.11 and they > are identical). In fact the following is what occurs at boot time: > > 1. When I boot up this client, eth0 does not have the inet6 > Link-local address. > If I then issue: > ifconfig eth0 down > ifconfig eth0 up > > The inet6 Link-local address then appears. > > 2. My 2.6.11 host does not learn this prefix and as a result there is > no Link-Global address. > > Has anyone experienced this issue. > > Thank you, > Phil Bellino > > > ============================ > Phil Bellino > MRV Communications, Inc. > Boston Product Division > 295 Foster St. > Littleton,MA 01460 > Tel: (978)952-4807 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ============================ -- Jonne Soininen Nokia Tel: +358 40 527 46 34 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
