Re: PF_INET6 on non-ipv6 kernels

Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:49:11 +0100

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>A much more valid request is to enable IPv6 by default in the
>kernel. I really hope that the common Linux distributions will
>distribute their default kernel with IPv6 enabled. AIX is already
>there, among others.

I agree. If memory use is a concern (IPv6 is quite large, admittedly) I think
it ought to work to have it as an auto-loaded module.

Now that glibc 2.1 has at least basic support for IPv6 it should also be
possible for the distributions to ship IPv6-enabled versions of the standard
programs.

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