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Re: [Q] IPv6-native Linux

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Subject: Re: [Q] IPv6-native Linux
From: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 11:20:29 +0900
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Hi,

In article <002b01bfe621$3e60be20$60a4fe81@xxxxxxxxxx> (at Wed, 5 Jul 2000 
10:35:02 +0900), "Kim, Yong-Woon" <qkim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:

> I'm considering a development of an IPv6-native Linux which means that 
> the IPv4 block is removed and only the IPv6 block is used for 
> the Linux networking.
> 
> Is it a big job? 
> or are minor modifications enough?

For kernel, you shuold re-construct codes.
remove codes from ipv4 referenced from ipv6 and put it a new "ip" layer
so that we can remove either (not both) ipv4 or ipv6.

For userland, DNS, NTP, NFS, NIS and other services don't speak 
IPv6 (on Linux) AFAIK.

We (new project mainly from Linux IPv6 Users JP) are planing to do these.

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