On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Maciej 'Agaran' Pijanka wrote:
> > is possible to disable ip stack and have only v6 stack working?
> > i looked a bit in sources but first sit.o should be separed from ipv6.o
> > (when ipv6 is in module)
>
> Impossible at this point. A lot of code is shared in .. less than obvious
> ways (e.g. tcp, ip toggles in proc, tcp and udp behaviour in general,
> etc.).
i think that the hybrid ipv4-ipv6 stack architecture is the best choice
at this moment. maybe when we'll have a 99% ipv6 internet it will make
any sense to have a real dual stack architecture (so that you can disable
ipv4), but in this moment i think that splitting common ipv4-ipv6 code
in the linux kernel would be a mistake.
> Now, being able to disable transitionary mechanisms would be a nice thing,
yes, really.
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