On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 04:01:03PM -0400, Brad Allen wrote: > I write to you as someone who wants to tell you what I wish to see in > a Debian distribution who is seriously considering a switch as a user > from RedHat (due to a lack of reponsiveness). First off, I am > concerned that the current stable release uses a kernel quite a few > years old:
That's because when it was released, 2.2 wasn't out. > 3. On a minor note, I find the "ip" program written by Alexey Kuznetsov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> available at ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/ > which replaces the "ifconfig" and "route" commands to be very well > written in terms of usability and consistency, and recommend it to > everyone who uses Linux 2.2+ and to the Debian distribution in > general; I have not actually cracked open Potato so do not know > the status of "ip" and the old "ifconfig"/"route" crap. We have both. But ifconfig and route are much better documented so they're the ones in the base system. > 4. I recommend the following time-release plan for IPv6 support: > > Here I work under the assumptions that IPv6 is not supported at > this time by Debian (OOTB) In unstable, it is partially. > and that a good plan for it does not exist; assumtions that may be > woefully wrong since I have not actually looked; please interpolate as > appropriate. We have a mailing list debian-ipv6 for discussing it. The current plan is that all networking programs in the base system should support it; other programs should if it is supported upstream but hardly anything is. > chore for the very next stable release, I do recommend that at the > very least the core-core-core packages be compiled with IPv6 > enabled We already have rather more than that. > What this means specifically is that the kernel (v2.2) and the > "ip" utility be compiled with IPv6 support compiled in (that is > only two packages and trivial to do by a freeze date even less > than a month away; I think it's ok to do IPv6 as a module in the > kernel). We have IPv6 versions of both ip and ifconfig/route. We don't have an IPv6 kernel: I'm not sure what the issues are about that, though I agree that I can't see how having an ipv6.o included would do any harm. We also have inetd, telnet/telnetd, apache, chimera2 (a web browser), exim and a few others.
