[LEDE-DEV] LEDE & IPv6

[Baptiste Jonglez]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:11:16AM +0200, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 08:01:10PM -0700, Craig Miller wrote:
> > Dear Devs,
> > 
> > Congratulations on the fork of OpenWRT. I look forward to the new LEDE
> > releases.
> > 
> > I am writing here because I am not a committer, but would like to
> > communicate with the Devs. I am a professional software tester, with
> > extensive IPv6 experience. I have been working with IPv6 and OpenWRT
> > specifically for the past year, and have found a few things lacking.
> > 
> > I see in the TODO list, review IPv6 changes. I too would like to see what
> > you have on the horizon for IPv6. I _can_ tell you that systemd is _not_
> > ready for IPv6, and have raised a few issues with the systemd team.
> > 
> > Here are some of the investigations I have done with OpenWRT, systemd and
> > IPv6.
> > http://ipv6-net.blogspot.ca/2016/02/nat-tiness-and-v6brouter.html
> > http://ipv6-net.blogspot.ca/2016/03/v6brouter-part-2-v6bridge-firewall.html
> 
> Instead of this horrible hack, please have a look at the excellent work
> done by the Homenet people from the IETF, in particular HNCP and hnetd.
> Some random links:
> 
>   https://www.irif.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/homenet/howto.html
>   https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/hncp
>   https://github.com/sbyx/hnetd/
>   https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7368.html

Just to be certain that my message was not misinterpreted: this is not
intended as a personal attack or a devaluation of your work on IPv6.
I just think that having separate layer-2 domains for IPv4 and IPv6 is a
terrible idea and is prone to subtle bugs.

> > http://ipv6-net.blogspot.ca/2016/04/systemd-oh-you-wanted-to-run-ipv6.html
> > 
> > Although I am not a c-coder, I have been writing software for the past 30
> > years. And would be happy to contribute, especially in the area of IPv6.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Craig...



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