Re: PF_INET6 on non-ipv6 kernels

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
30 Mar 1999 17:29:09 +0200


pb@nexus.co.uk (Philip Blundell) writes:

> >A much more valid request is to enable IPv6 by default in the
> >kernel. I really hope that the common Linux distributions will
> >distribute their default kernel with IPv6 enabled. AIX is already
> >there, among others.
>
> I agree. If memory use is a concern (IPv6 is quite large, admittedly) I think
> it ought to work to have it as an auto-loaded module.

The present IPv6 code still has some module related races, for some I have
fixes, but I don't know it it'll be possible to put them into 2.2.x.
Generally I think the Linux IPv6 implementation is still too experimental
to advertise as a standard feature of the system.

-Andi

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