Andy Gospodarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:25:19PM -0500, Brian Haley wrote:
[...]
>> So forgive my naive question, but what would it take to make IPv6 work? 
>>  I know DAD fails on a test setup I have, but I haven't dug-into why 
>> this is (I can guess), and I'd like to see it working.  I'm willing to 
>> help, even if just to get it limping along.
>> 
>
>Brian,
>
>If we are easily able to differentiate between the multicast addresses
>in the mc_list as to which are for ipv4 and which are for ipv6 then it
>would be easy to call-out to something in the ipv6 mcast code when
>needed instead of always calling out to ipv4 code.

        Which covers multicast (at least for the failover case; I think
the regular support is already pretty address-independent).

        Additionally, the IP address tracking for the ARP monitor
(bond_glean_dev_ip) needs IPv6 address support.  I seem to recall that
there's an issue with the slaves each getting separate link local
addresses automatically assigned, but I haven't fooled with that in a
while.  There are likely other problems that would crop up during
serious testing.

        A characterization of what the IPv6 related problems are would
be a good place to start; I would expect that active-backup mode without
arp_monitor shouldn't be too difficult to make operable.

        -J

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        -Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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