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On Sunday 01 June 2003 06:29, Peter Johanson wrote: |
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> hey all, |
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> i've started doing a lot of work on IPv6 stuff in gentoo, to try to get |
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> us up to snuff with regards to IPv6 support. I've been commiting a lot |
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> more ebuilds for various things, and more are to come. BUT, an important |
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> aspect needs fixing. |
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> init scripts. |
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> The problem is we need better control of configuring both the IPv4 and |
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> the IPv6 attributes of an interface. Specifically, we want IPv6 services |
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> to start if IPv4 networking fails and vice versa. |
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> Along with that, we also need some initscript control over establishing |
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> tunnels, etc. That issue will be better tackled i think after we have a |
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> solid general device configuration in place. |
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I hope what you mean by that is also nice initscripts for pptp and pppoe. Even |
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if they basically just let you specify the command line from conf.d, it's |
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still something. I've been wondering why we don't have them... |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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