Re: IP6 support ?

My understanding is that any plans along those lines are my own. Due to a
bizarre and recurrant condition called 'Real Life', I've been unable to
complete my patch-set to 2.3 (which, along with a couple of other frequently
requested features I had hoped to get completed before 2.3 went to stable
release).

So - my fault that it's not there, at the moment. Currently, I'm single-handed
on a Big Project(tm), for which the release candidate deadline is only around
3 months away. More of that Real Life thing.

Consequently, I'm now aiming at either a late patch to 2.3STABLE(n) where (n)
>4 or for managing to produce it by 2.4DEVEL(something).

I _did_ have microscopic proxy that could be used as a parent to squid to
provide IP-protocol-indepenent browsing, but the code was more or less crap,
and I'm not entirely sure what I've done with it. It was ugly, and
inefficient, and I'd cobbled it together from other code of mine that was
intended to do something quite different.

As it happens, Big Project(tm) involves proxying and does incorporate ipv6
support (since the new API's are much easier to work with from the get-go,
rather than retrofitting later). I daresay I'll have learned quite a bit by
the time I've finished it. I know that I have already.

D

Danny Thomas wrote:

> I don't keep up with squid and would like to know if there are plans to
> support ip6 ?
>
> KAME did do a patch for squid-1.1.22 (ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/)
> but it's much better if the developers of a package directly support ip6.
> The KAME ip6 stack has been integrated in NetBSD-current for ca 6 months
> (yes even the VAX and WinCE NetBSD platforms can run ip6 for everything bar
> NFS) and it's in the process of being integrated in Open/FreeBSD-current.
> So there's already a reasonable population of systems which are
> ip6-capable, not to mention the recent commercial unices. Of course there's
> always lots of feature enhancements competing for developer-interest so I
> wonder how ip6 stands ?
>
> cheers,
> Danny Thomas
>
> PS the cineca site seems to be down so I couldn't search the archives.
Received on Tue Jan 18 2000 - 16:13:29 MST