Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/09/14:59:14
At 02:23 PM 2/9/2004, Antonio Querubin you wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
>
>> At 12:54 PM 2/9/2004, Antonio Querubin you wrote:
>> >I was looking through the archives and noticed there hasn't been much
>> >recent work on integrating IPv6 into Cygwin. I've been using Jun-ya
>> >Kato's IPv6 extensions which work great for simple IPv6 apps - even
>> >multicast works for some simple cases.
>> >
>> >So I was wondering what are the current barriers preventing the
>> >integration of IPv6 into Cygwin and if there was anything that could be
>> >done to overcome those barriers. If full integration isn't possible or
>> >discouraged for whatever reason, I'd like to at least eventually see an
>> >IPv6 package option that can be selected during setup. Reply off-list if
>> >you wish.
>>
>>
>> From my 2 minute perusal of the email archives on this subject, I see
>> nothing that suggests this can't be done and some attempts at doing so.
>> If you're interested in helping to move this work along, then perhaps
>> you want to start here:
>>
>> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-08/msg01581.html>
>
>Actually that's sort of what I already was suggesting above. Whether it
>be as a separate package or as a beta option for the DLL probably doesn't
>matter as long as there was a way to uninstall either way if that became
>necessary.
Actually, I was pointing more at the general discussion and the embedded
reference than anything else. The discussion of how it's distributed
is less interesting overall than the content.
>> This points to at least one on-going, albeit somewhat external, effort
>> for melding Cygwin and IPv6. There may be others you can find as well.
>> I think everyone would be interested in seeing IPv6 in Cygwin if you
>> have interest in helping make that a reality.
>
>Yeah I'm willing to do any developmental work (time permitting) but want
>to get a feel for where things currently stand. The message you referred
>to in the archive is almost 1.5 years old so I suspect the environment has
>probably changed especially now that the IPv6 stack in current releases of
>Windows works out of the box.
And the internal link to <http://win6.jp/Cygwin/> states that there are
still problems, particularly in some of MS's older, IPv6-challenged
O/S versions. Cygwin still supports these less capable brethren generally
and there is no plans to jettison support for them. Whatever is implemented
here has to address any problems that may occur on these platforms.
This site also contains a zip file with, among other things, a patch against
cygwin 1.5.7-1. You're not going to get too much more current than that. ;-)
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