I"d like to be able to use my "hard" IPv6 address on my
IPCop"s red interface and route from there to my
internal network. Having a /48 and not being able to
use it is no fun. :^(
I'm not sure any of the developers have a connection that
supports IPv6... I certainly don't. That makes it kinda
difficult to add IPv6 support, it could be done in a closed
LAN environemnt perhaps - but it's difficult to find the
motivation until IPv6 is more widespread.
We'd certainly be interested in someone with the skills and
ability to implement IPv6 providing a patch or working with
us to implement it. If nobody does though I think it may be
quite some time before IPv6 is properly supported.
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you could do a IPv4 to IPv6 conversion between the internet
adn internal networks mostly just want IPv6 support to use
ipcop as a DNS ,DHCP and Proxy/firewall for IPv6
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I think I miss IPv6 support in IPcop too. Well, is IPv6 really useful today (Q1 2008)? Is IPv6 ready for production now? ;-) IPcop is not ready...
At least, I miss a notice about IPv6 in the IPcop FAQ and route plan. Is there any plan for IPv6 at all?
From my point of view (I am not IPv6 expert..) I see these separate areas for IPv6 support (can be added step by step?):
- global enable/disable switch for IPv6 support in IPcop (maybe useless)
- IPv6 support on local LAN (support in IPcop DNS server, DHCP server, etc. This will enable to use IPcop to build local IPv6 infrastructure
- IPv6 support on WAN/red interface; to be able to connect to ISP with full IPv6 support
- IPv6 tunnel support, like 6in4, 6to4, miredo, etc.; to enable to connect local IPv6 network for users connected with IPv4 ISP.
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The linux IPv6 code is now a lot more reliable, in that the netfilter conntracks for IPv6 actually work now (they were broken for a long time). Really though I don't see a practical use for IPv6 at this point, it's nice enough to play with perhaps but I see no reason for the average user to want it at this point. The fact that tunneling remains the only way most people can get an IPv6 connection just goes to highlight how little the average user needs IPv6.
So I guess I'll repeat what I said previously, if you want to contribute some code for IPv6 support hop onto the devel list and discuss your plans. If not, we'd rather work on things that are going to be more useful for the average user for now.
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I'm not sure any of the developers have a connection that
supports IPv6... I certainly don't. That makes it kinda
difficult to add IPv6 support, it could be done in a closed
LAN environemnt perhaps - but it's difficult to find the
motivation until IPv6 is more widespread.
We'd certainly be interested in someone with the skills and
ability to implement IPv6 providing a patch or working with
us to implement it. If nobody does though I think it may be
quite some time before IPv6 is properly supported.
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Hi, is it possible to have
CONFIG_IPV6 set to M in a next kernel?
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you could do a IPv4 to IPv6 conversion between the internet
adn internal networks mostly just want IPv6 support to use
ipcop as a DNS ,DHCP and Proxy/firewall for IPv6
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I think I miss IPv6 support in IPcop too. Well, is IPv6 really useful today (Q1 2008)? Is IPv6 ready for production now? ;-) IPcop is not ready...
At least, I miss a notice about IPv6 in the IPcop FAQ and route plan. Is there any plan for IPv6 at all?
From my point of view (I am not IPv6 expert..) I see these separate areas for IPv6 support (can be added step by step?):
- global enable/disable switch for IPv6 support in IPcop (maybe useless)
- IPv6 support on local LAN (support in IPcop DNS server, DHCP server, etc. This will enable to use IPcop to build local IPv6 infrastructure
- IPv6 support on WAN/red interface; to be able to connect to ISP with full IPv6 support
- IPv6 tunnel support, like 6in4, 6to4, miredo, etc.; to enable to connect local IPv6 network for users connected with IPv4 ISP.
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Here's what I said last time this came up:
http://marc.info/?l=ipcop-user&m=119611907408638&w=2
The linux IPv6 code is now a lot more reliable, in that the netfilter conntracks for IPv6 actually work now (they were broken for a long time). Really though I don't see a practical use for IPv6 at this point, it's nice enough to play with perhaps but I see no reason for the average user to want it at this point. The fact that tunneling remains the only way most people can get an IPv6 connection just goes to highlight how little the average user needs IPv6.
So I guess I'll repeat what I said previously, if you want to contribute some code for IPv6 support hop onto the devel list and discuss your plans. If not, we'd rather work on things that are going to be more useful for the average user for now.
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I understand that IPv6 is not your priority now.
This is an article, MS recomandations for IPv6 enabled SOHO router:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/network/IPv6_IGD.mspx
Closing all IPv6 requests. IPv6 is (somewhere) on the roadmap.