Hi,

I use IPv6 exclusively on my home network and have installed PLD Linux
(http://www.pld.org.pl/) on one of my spare machines as it makes many
claims about extensive IPv6 support.

These claims are very much justified.  Applications such as wget,
apache, lynx, proftpd and many others which are also found in Mandrake
Linux all support connectivity to both native IPv6 and IPv4 hosts.

I have successfully 'migrated' some of the IPv6-enabling patches used by
PLD into the Mandrake SRPM packages and are using these packages in a
production environment with good results.

Therefore, I have two questions:

1:) Is Mandrakesoft interested in achieving a greater degree of IPv6
compliance in both Mandrake Cooker and the next release version of
Mandrake Linux ?

2:) Is anybody else working on this ? - if not, I would be happy to
volunteer for the job :)

I understand that a lot of these patches are not well tested and not
entirely suitable for the default build of a package which would be
included in a release version of Mandrake.  However, I see no reason why
any patches couldn't be integrated with the associated SRPM and the
specfile modified to allow the user to rebuild it using a command line
similar to 'rpm --rebuild --with ipv6 package.src.rpm'.

Does anybody have any thoughts on the matter ?

Regards,
Terry

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