On 2/4/2010 2:40 AM, Loren M. Lang wrote: > 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 necessary 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.
The Department of Energy is funding the implementation of Rx/TCP and IPv6 along with many other long sought after additions to the OpenAFS. Descriptions of the projects and the estimated delivery dates based upon the grant funding are listed on the OpenAFS roadmap. http://www.openafs.org/roadmap.html Discussions of protocol design issues will take place on the afs3-standardization mailing list. http://michigan-openafs-lists.central.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization Please join the list. Jeffrey Altman
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