On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Hi everyone,
> a couple of us are hanging out on EFNet in #freebsd-w6d for the next 30 hours > or so (as we are awake;). The main idea is to share experience of FreeBSD > and IPv6 during World IPv6 Day and to try to help people in case of immediate > problems. We'll also try to closely monitor this freebsd-net mailing list in > case you'll post here. first of all thank you to those replied and contacted us or me in private. Thanks to everyone who was around on IRC and made the "uneventful" event more interesting. Given some feedback I have read I want to start pointing out that IPv6 in FreeBSD is not single person effort. There are other developers working on IPv6 as well, people running the clusters and services who helped, people providing review, Kris Moore doing PC-BSD snapshot builds for the v6only project, the Foundation (you can always consider a donation to them to support FreeBSD) and ixSystems supporting it. So if you thank me, do not forget to thank all of them as well. Last but not least, it's you, the users and consumers of what we develop and your feedback helping to improve IPv6 in FreeBSD. A thank you to everyone from me! World IPv6 Day and FreeBSD -------------------------- The day went very smooth and quiet. We had a couple of questions, that I spotted: 1) pf and frag6 support - we don't have it, it's unclear to me how much OpenBSD in their latest version really has. It's on the list. 2) ipfw and frag6 support - need to get the changes from the PR in to unbreak some cases biting users. Had two requests about that. 3) how to configure and use RFC 4941 privacy extensions with SLAAC on FreeBSD and a general conclusion that the Handbook section needs an update. Patches or just text is always welcome. 4) I had a private question on v4-mapped addresses and traceroute (as in on the wire), which FreeBSD drops in ip6_input(). See http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-itojun-v6ops-v4mapped-harmful-02 for more information on why. We had a single report of a real problem on IRC, a panic on 7.4, which we couldn't get enough debugging information from unfortunately (if you read this, please drop me a private email). I've have generated some (uneventful) graphs of v6 and v4 vs. v6 hits per minute on www.freebsd.org, which you can find here: http://www.freebsd.org/ipv6/w6d-www-stats.html You can possibly spot when Europe, US East and US West woke up, if looking carefully;) Otherwise the day, as I was told, was more "business as usual" for most. If you have any other feedback or comments, let us know. The IRC channel is still alive, though mostly chatty (on v6 related things still). "FreeBSD is initiating IPv6-only validation work" (Cameron Byrne on nanog) ------------------------------------------------- As much as I could find out, we already had a number of downloads of the IPv6only snapshots, though I'd have hoped that more of them would actually be over IPv6;) If you are a developer or just curious, if you are doing QA on network related thing or if you are building a v6 product, I'd like to encourage you to try them (or build a v6only kernel yourself and validate). Thanks to Sato-san we now also mirror them in Asia/Japan in addition to America/California and Europe/Germany. If you want to try a desktop variant, PC-BSD is also providing IPv6-only snapshots in CA.US (and mirrored in DE) and I know people have been downloading those as well and I got some feedback here already. For FreeBSD you can find more information (how to build your own kernel, how to netinstall, ..) at: http://www.freebsd.org/ipv6/ipv6only.html and http://wiki.freebsd.org/IPv6Only PC-BSD has download links and information at: http://www.pcbsd.org/IPv6 and http://blog.pcbsd.org/2011/06/ipv6-only-version-of-pc-bsd-9-0-available-for-world-ipv6-day/ I am planning to provide further IPv6-only snapshots (at least for FreeBSD) and we'll keep you updated on that. You may want to check http://www.freebsd.org/ipv6/ once in a while for updates. In any case please let us know about how things went for you. We want to hear any good or bad feedback - either in public or drop me a private email. If you have further ideas on how to extend this project in the future I am also curious to learn about that. Thanks again and have a pleasant IPv6 experience! Bjoern -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! Stop bit received. Insert coin for new address family._______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
