[OpenAFS-devel] Re: IPv6 support

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:48:36 -0500


--On Monday, February 14, 2011 04:33:14 PM +0000 Simon Wilkinson 
<sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> I think the best approach is the one that Andrew, Love and I are
> advocating - start at the bottom of the stack, work your way up to the
> top. For Summer of Code purposes this predominantly means adding IPv6
> addressing to RX. Fortunately, the RX wire protocol doesn't include
> address information (that's handled below it, in UDP), so this is just
> API extension work.

I agree; adding IPv6 support to Rx is both a good place to start and 
probably about the right size for a GSoC project.

-- Jeff