On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:32 PM, David Sommerseth > <openvpn.l...@topphemmelig.net> wrote: >> On 26/04/12 19:24, Gert Doering wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 07:03:40PM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >>>> I plan to add --enable-ipv6/--disable-ipv6 to explicit support >>>> ipv6. >>> >>> NAK. >>> >>> We considered this, and this will add a shitload of #ifdefs which >>> will make maintenance of the code a lot harder. >>> >>> (We actually *removed* all the #ifdefs of JJO's IPv6 transport >>> code, because it really hurt) >>> >>> We're in the year 2012, there are no operating systems without IPv6 >>> support anymore, and it does not make sense to have a VPN >>> implementation that has no IPv6 support. >> >> Just for the record, I completely agree with Gert here. Actually we >> should focus on getting OpenVPN work better in IPv6-only environments >> - - but that's probably something for the 2.4 cycle. >> > > At embedded system and several distros like Gentoo, the ipv6 should be > made enable/disabled, just like any other project. > It is the same #ifdef as we already have these in code. > Even in 2012 kernels can be compiled without ipv6. > > Alon.
Just to see other project relevance: --- # equery hasuse ipv6 * Searching for USE flag ipv6 ... [IP-] [ ] app-admin/syslog-ng-3.2.5:0 [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.7.2-r3:2.7 [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/python-3.2.2:3.2 [IP-] [ ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.8-r5:2 [IP-] [ ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64-r2:0 [IP-] [ ] media-libs/mediastreamer-2.7.3-r3:0 [IP-] [ ] net-analyzer/net-snmp-5.4.2.1-r4:0 [IP-] [ ] net-analyzer/netcat6-1.0-r2:0 [IP-] [ ] net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.9.8-r1:0 [IP-] [ ] net-analyzer/wireshark-1.6.6:0 [IP-] [ ] net-dialup/ppp-2.4.5-r1:0 [IP-] [ ] net-dns/bind-tools-9.8.1:0 [IP-] [ ] net-dns/dnsmasq-2.57:0 [IP-] [ ] net-firewall/iptables-1.4.12.1:0 [IP-] [ ] net-ftp/ftp-0.17-r7:0 [IP-] [ ] net-libs/libpcap-1.1.1-r1:0 [IP-] [ ] net-libs/ortp-0.16.5:0 [IP-] [ ] net-misc/curl-7.24.0:0 [IP-] [ ] net-misc/iperf-2.0.5:0 [IP-] [ ] net-misc/iputils-20101006-r2:0 [IP-] [ ] net-misc/ntp-4.2.6_p3:0 [IP-] [ ] net-misc/rsync-3.0.9:0 [IP-] [ ] net-misc/wget-1.12-r3:0 [IP-] [ ] net-nds/openldap-2.4.30:0 [IP-] [ ] sys-apps/busybox-1.19.3-r1:0 [IP-] [ ] sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r8:0 [IP-] [ ] sys-process/lsof-4.85-r2:0 [IP-] [ ] sys-process/psmisc-22.14:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-apps/xauth-1.0.6:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-apps/xhost-1.0.4:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r2:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-libs/libICE-1.0.7:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-libs/libSM-1.2.0:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-libs/libX11-1.4.4:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-libs/libXfont-1.4.4:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-libs/libXmu-1.1.0:0 ---
