a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > > Seeing that the operating system you are using is GNU/Linux, then > > it does support IPv6. But for whatever reasons, your kernel > > (Linux) can have IPv6 support disabled. Can you check? The > > directory /proc/sys/net/ipv6/ should exist with some files in it. > > The directory you mentioned does not exist. > > Then your kernel was not compiled with IPv6 support, and thus it is > impossible for IU to work on your system unless you recompile it > (Linux) with support for IPv6. > > But as a side note, the situation here is interesting. IPv6 is a two > headed beast, the issue really boils down to that we only check if the > IPv6 API exists; not that it actually works. The same is really the > case for IPv4. Should we worry about this? Add a more specific > checks, that actually exercise the IPvX stack? > > I'm not sure.
I think there actually may be three things to check for: 1) IPv6 APIs exists, 2) IPv6 APIs works, 3) system configuration (e.g., loopback interface) are sane. I'm inclined to treat this as a documentation issue until we have decided what code to modify to improve this problem... /Simon
