Excerpts from Etienne Goyer's message of Mon Apr 18 14:03:12 -0700 2011: > 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.
I think the most important bit is going to be automated testing of common use cases. We need to be able to fire up a VM on an IPv6 only subnet, install LAMP, give it an IPv6 address, have it send an email to an IPv6 enabled MX, have it trigger an IPv6 client to pull a page from it, then start Firefox, and have it run through some automated scripts (Selenium anybody?) to drive an IPv6 website. > > 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. Given the IPv4 space exhaustion problem, we can reasonably expect to see it all used up by 2019, which is when the presumably-next-LTS 12.04 will reach EOL on the server. So I think IPv6 only networks are a simple goal that will definitely become a reality in the lifetime of upcoming releases. -- 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
