On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > At 12:54 PM 2/9/2004, Antonio Querubin you wrote: > >I was looking through the archives and noticed there hasn't been much > >recent work on integrating IPv6 into Cygwin. I've been using Jun-ya > >Kato's IPv6 extensions which work great for simple IPv6 apps - even > >multicast works for some simple cases. > > > >So I was wondering what are the current barriers preventing the > >integration of IPv6 into Cygwin and if there was anything that could be > >done to overcome those barriers. If full integration isn't possible or > >discouraged for whatever reason, I'd like to at least eventually see an > >IPv6 package option that can be selected during setup. Reply off-list if > >you wish. > > > From my 2 minute perusal of the email archives on this subject, I see > nothing that suggests this can't be done and some attempts at doing so. > If you're interested in helping to move this work along, then perhaps > you want to start here: > > <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-08/msg01581.html>
Actually that's sort of what I already was suggesting above. Whether it be as a separate package or as a beta option for the DLL probably doesn't matter as long as there was a way to uninstall either way if that became necessary. > This points to at least one on-going, albeit somewhat external, effort > for melding Cygwin and IPv6. There may be others you can find as well. > I think everyone would be interested in seeing IPv6 in Cygwin if you > have interest in helping make that a reality. Yeah I'm willing to do any developmental work (time permitting) but want to get a feel for where things currently stand. The message you referred to in the archive is almost 1.5 years old so I suspect the environment has probably changed especially now that the IPv6 stack in current releases of Windows works out of the box. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
