On Tue, Feb 05, 2008, Amos Jeffries wrote: > You mean like all those setups we are trying to convert off 2.5? > Linux <2.6, MacOSX <10.2, Solaris <8, FreeBSD <6.0, NetBSD<2.0, > OpenBSD<3.0 are almost all in that category or have large know problems > with their v6 support.
Yeah, and those platforms can just stick to IPv4 for now until they absolutely have to migrate. Heck, I've just been handed a "please try to fix diskd, please!" problem because a vendor is stuck on FreeBSD-4 for the next 12 months. > Didn't even bother considering older unices in squid-3, since anything > able to compile C++ templates is recent. Squid-2 being C has an older > range of hardware to track. Well, we can draw a line in the sand and say "... aand we support that." I don't think we really have done that; and -thats- mostly an exercise in getting later versions of GCC to run on the older OS. The OS compatibility issues are well taken; esp. the "need to support multiple listen ports" thing. I'm just thinking about the first step to take in making the code in Squid-2 slightly readier for ipv6 in the future, both so the current code is made ready and future code is required to use it. Full IPv6 support in Squid-2 may never be a possibility, but people are going to ask about it soon enough. Adrian
