[OpenAFS-devel] IPv6 Support

[Loren M. Lang]

I am strongly interested in seeing IPv6 support in OpenAFS and I would
like to know what work has been done so far on it.  It appears that
there is nothing in code yet, but I am curious if there has been any
work on documenting the changes neccessary to the protocol or other
AFS implementations.  I saw a reference to Arla having some initial work
done for it.  Also, any documentation on the existing protocol would be
helpful.  I found this talking about the underlying Rx protocol:

http://web.mit.edu/kolya/afs/rx/rx-spec

Some of the main protocol changes as I understand it will be adding IPv6
addresses to the VLDB, supporting dual-stack with Ubik, and supporting
IPv6 addresses in Kerberos authentication.  Now that OpenAFS supports
rxk5, it should be easier as I believe that includes a Kerberos 5 ticket
possibly containing IPv6 addresses.  There is also a lot of code
hard-coded to use AF_INET for sockets, but I'm not sure how much is
actually visible in the protocol.

My first step will be to just get a fileserver to support serving data
over an IPv6 socket anonymously and then adding IPv6 addresses to VLDB.
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Loren M. Lang
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