Bug#584549: linux-2.6: please enable CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 13:26 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Hi, netdev wasn't particularly interested, but Julius Volz, the author of this code directed me to the lvs-users mailing list. Nobody reported any problem since then, but I got a success report, see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/163055/focus=11035 I also got a personal reply from Rob Gallagher. Quoting him: From: Rob Gallagher robert.gallag...@heanet.ie Subject: Re: Is CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6 still/really dangerous? To: Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu Cc: Julius Volz juli...@google.com Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:56:53 +0100 We've been using IPVS with IPv6 on our mirror site, ftp.heanet.ie, for nearly a year now. The only major issue we encountered was with mtu discovery for some users on IPv6 tunnels, however this was quickly resolved with a patch from Julius that has since gone into the mainline kernel. The referenced patch is commit 94b26551: IPVS: Add handling of incoming ICMPV6 messages, which is seems to be already present in the Sid kernel. Based on the above, I don't think there are known problems with this option. While it's untested on the wider scale, it seems to work for those using it. Please consider enabling it, or tell me how I could help researching this further. Thanks for the information. This will be enabled in the next version. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#584549: linux-2.6: please enable CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6
Hi, netdev wasn't particularly interested, but Julius Volz, the author of this code directed me to the lvs-users mailing list. Nobody reported any problem since then, but I got a success report, see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/163055/focus=11035 I also got a personal reply from Rob Gallagher. Quoting him: From: Rob Gallagher robert.gallag...@heanet.ie Subject: Re: Is CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6 still/really dangerous? To: Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu Cc: Julius Volz juli...@google.com Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:56:53 +0100 We've been using IPVS with IPv6 on our mirror site, ftp.heanet.ie, for nearly a year now. The only major issue we encountered was with mtu discovery for some users on IPv6 tunnels, however this was quickly resolved with a patch from Julius that has since gone into the mainline kernel. The referenced patch is commit 94b26551: IPVS: Add handling of incoming ICMPV6 messages, which is seems to be already present in the Sid kernel. Based on the above, I don't think there are known problems with this option. While it's untested on the wider scale, it seems to work for those using it. Please consider enabling it, or tell me how I could help researching this further. -- Thanks, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iq5cpqx3.fsf...@tac.ki.iif.hu
Bug#584549: linux-2.6: please enable CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-15 Severity: wishlist Kconfig says: Add IPv6 support to IPVS. This is incomplete and might be dangerous. The implementation certainly is incomplete, but at the same time usable in real-word situations. I've got no idea why it could be dangerous, but will try to get some info on that. Meanwhile, please consider setting this option, or describe why it's out of question if so. Thanks, Feri. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100604134834.7180.69400.report...@nfs.niif.hu
