In article <200502270928.44402.Info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Sun, 27 Feb 2005
09:28:44 -0600), Quantum Scientific <Info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:
> After a week of intensive research and full-time study, it's become clear
> that
> IPV6 support, as it comes in standard Linux 2.6 kernels, is effectively
> non-functional.
Sigh...
It is defenetely functional for me.
> usagi.snap.split-tool-s20050214.tar.bz2
> ... however this has no kernel patch within.
>
> So I DLed
> usagi.snap.kit-linux26-s20050214.tar.bz2
> ... and no kernel patch here either. Only the kernel and tools. I would
> have
> to run a USAGI-specific kernel, in order to have proper IPV6 support. I must
> stay with the Debian kernel.
I believe you should cry at debian-ipv6 list.
And, you can find usagi kernel patch in split directory, and
you can even find (unsupported) daily kernel snapshot (diff).
> I can't believe the native kernel's IPV6 is so primitive. I can't believe
> any
> kernel developers are actually using IPV6. And I can't believe that anyone
> is actually using IPV6 with the Debian kernel. The Debian IPV6 mailing list
> is full of spam, and brought viruses and scams to my door when I subscribed.
> No one I've asked questions of has mentioned any of this at all, so if there
> is an answer, it is clearly a secret.
Sigh...
Even you can't believe, I actually use IPv6 in my daily life.
I use Debian kernel at first, but in most cases,
I upgrade it to latest usagi tree ASAP.
In this means, I don't usually use Debian IPv6 kernel. (sorry.)
> So is there something I'm missing? Am I completely fscked-up when I say that
> it doesn't work in practice, because there is no stateful packet filtering
> nor connection tracking?
FYI, I hope nf_conntrack, which supports both ipv4 and ipv6, will be
integrated in 2.6.12 time frame.
Note: nf_conntrack framework is designed and written by Kozakai-san.
--yoshfuji
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