Erik Nordmark wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > I understand that the original customer for this never used it and that
> > parts of Solaris' Mobile IP support are broken.  But, are there really
> > no real or potential users of / uses for mobile IP in Solaris?
> 
> It isn't just that it is untested hence potentially broken; it was
> incomplete by design (with the customer in question signing up to
> providing certain components to complete what they needed.)
> 
> I think having complete Mobile IPv4 and IPv6 support in Solaris would be
> a good thing, but I don't know anybody currently working on this. (Any
> volunteers?) If and when such an effort starts, maybe some parts of the
> existing code would be useful to look at.

Well, I would suggest to ignore IPv4 and only look at Mobile IPv6
support - AFAIK that may be less painfull (or better: Look ahead and
create stuff for the future (=IPv6) instead of the past (=IPv4 (since
noone used Mobile IPv4 support in Solaris anyway))) ...

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Roland

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