Hello everyone, I have been having one-on-one conversation in the past few weeks with a number of people around the question of IPv6 in Ubuntu. With the upcoming IPv4 armageddon, I think it is quite pressing that we make sure that we have good end-to-end IPv6 support in Ubuntu. I've been asked to kickstart a discussion about it, and eventually distil the results in a blueprint for the next UDS.
So, here are my notes on the stuff that would need to be investigated: - Installer support: some work has been done upstream in netcfg and d-i[1]. Not sure about the status. I do not think Ubiquity has any IPv6 support (or does it?) - NFS: I was never able to make that work in Ubuntu. Reportedly, it requires nfs-utils 1.2.3, which just got uploaded to Debian. I also believe nfs-utils needs to be built with --enable-ipv6. - DHCPv6: I understand we are getting that in Natty with isc-dhcp v4. I know SLAAC is the way to go in most case, but some people wants/needs DHCPv6 for various reasons. I guess it mostly needs testing. - NetworkManager: It used to be that NetworkManager insisted upon getting an IPv4 address, but Matt Trudel just marked bug #307598 as fixed two weeks ago. Presumably, NM now work fine in IPv6-only network, but I have not tested yet. Any other major roadblock beside the above? I am going to sift through the bugs tagged ipv6 on Launchpad, but if there's anything obvious I missed, please let me know. Finally, a question to consider is whether we want to address the IPv6-only use-case (ie, not dual-stack, no IPv4 configuration). This has some implications, notably around d-i and NetworkManager. Few networks are IPv6-only at this time, but it's bound to change in the near future. Thanks for your insights. [1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2011/01/msg00883.html -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor - LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
