From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon,  8 May 2000 14:38:20 +0000
From: Lucio De Re lucio@proxima.alt.za
Subject: [9fans] IPv6
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On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:56:45AM -0400, presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
>
> I started implementing IPv6 and got deflected doing other stuff.  The
> IP stack in the upcoming release is still IPv4 but the interface to
> user programs uses IPv6 addresses (with the embedded IPv4 format for
> v4 addresses).  It's kind of odd without a v6 stack, but I was hoping
> to get back to the v6 implementation and wanted to make sure I didn't
> have to go and change all the user level code again.

My head spins whenever the KAME project developer (itojun) makes a new
announcement on the NetBSD network mailing list - I'm beginning to think
I'm getting too old for this game :-)

As for your approach, it makes a lot of good sense.  And it's always
good to take into consideration other people's mistakes when tackling
something as formidable as IPv6.  Good luck :-)

++L