[AFS3-std] IPv6?

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:09:01 -0500


Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> writes:
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>> Do the current protocol specs allow for IPv6?
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>> Do new standards documents need to be made to allow for IPv6?
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> If we send an IP address over the wire anywhere in the existing protocol,
> that part of the protocol will need to be changed to support IPv6.  I'm
> fairly sure that we do so in several places.
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> IPv6 support requires touching everything that RxTCP touches (admittedly
> in a less-invasive way), so the long-term plan on the OpenAFS side was to
> tackle IPv6 at the same time as RxTCP.
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>   

Do both of these require wire-level changes?

Jason