[I am not a subscriber to either of the above lists from the above
(neutral) address, so I don't know if it will reach all the recipients
the first time.]
It is my understanding that there are some serious flaws in the IPv6
implementation in linux-2.4. Perhaps I am mistaken, but from my own
experience I find that Linux hosts seem to have problems with address
autoconfiguration and don't seem to like router advertisements from
FreeBSD-4 ipv6 routers. (Presumably there is a corresponding bug in
the Linux "rtadvd"?)
While I know that the Usagi project is still in active development and
also involved in work on glibc's ipv6 support and ip6 tools, I think
the issues with the kernel are so important for Linux's ipv6
compliance and interworking with other vendors, they should be
addressed as soon as possible.
So I write to ask if it isn't possible to have the most essential
fixes from the Usagi patches merged into the main kernel source as
soon as possible, rather than making most of Linux community using the
mainstream kernel wait a year or whatever before a more complete merge
hopefully takes place.
For the good of Linux I encourage all of those involved to work to
this end swiftly and amiciably, so that we have a fine working IPv6
implementation in Linux.
Yours sincerely,
Jens Petersen
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