Hello! On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:52:28AM +0200, Stefan Siegl wrote: > I've already announced it on #hurd, however for the records and to > publish the patch: I've somewhat successfully made the good old pfinet > IPv6-aware.
:-) > In order to do so, I imported a number of source files (without > modifications) from Linux 2.2.14 kernel -- because of our build system I > had to rename some of them, to make their filenames unique. This shall change somewhen: as soon as we'll finally be using GNU Automake. > If you'd like to try it out: This is now documented in the wiki at <http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6/>. > - for development I've put the sources into a git repository, available > by `git clone http://brokenpipe.de/gitroot/pfinet6' Should this be added to the wiki page as well? > A few last bits: > > -> where to import? > I more and more arrive at the conclusion that we should just > IPv6-enhance the existing pfinet, not add another pfinet6 directory > which shares almost all the code. I completely agree. > IPv6 support can easily be disabled in config.h (and maybe some flag > to the configure script somewhen) Yes. > -> how to import? > Do we need to maintain the vendor branch further? > Updates haven't been applied anyways (at least not since 2.2.14) and > because of the file renamings it's a pain to track with CVS. As far as I know, Roland has been the only one to use this branch. Long time ago. I'd also use a different method than using a CVS vendor branch. Regards, Thomas
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