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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:18:35 -0400
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] linux il/ip
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IL is long dead.

I used IL over long-distance connections.  It was awful.
TCP is a necessity once you move beyond the local ethernet.
There are no good reasons to try to port IL to other systems
or to try to update it for IPv6.

The only even plausible reason is to connect to old
Plan 9 file servers, but your effort would be better spent
writing some glue so that the old file server code could
run in user space on standard kernels.

If, as was mentioned at the start of the thread, you simply
want to mount your old file server from Linux, by far the
easiest solution is to find a Plan 9 box to proxy between
TCP and IL:

  cat >/bin/service/tcp1234 <<!
  #!/bin/rc
  exec /bin/aux/trampoline il!yourfileserver!9fs
  !
  chmod +x /bin/service/tcp1234

If you don't have an extra machine to serve that capacity,
the next easiest solution is to find one.

Russ