On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:47:03AM -0700, Alan Maguire wrote: > > Why have separate IPv4 vs. IPv6 services? > > the key reason is to allow IPv4 routing daemons to depend on ip > forwarding settings where appropriate (though many daemons can run > without forwarding being on), and ditto for IPv6. ripngd in particular > depends on the IPv6 forwarding flags being set to run correctly. this > means that if i disable ipv6-forwarding, the ripng service will go > offline until ipv6-forwarding is re-enabled (with the ndd caveat i > mention above).
So, I could have one daemon handling IPv4 routing and one daemon handling IPv6 routing? That seems wrong. But I'll admit that I've not kept up to date with routing protocols as they relate to IPv4/6.
