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On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:40:51PM +0000, Markus Pfeiffer wrote: > > What is the current status of ipv6 support for coda? I have seen that rpc2 has > > ipv6 support and that some of the daemons seem to communicate via ipv6 but > > some other things obviously do not work. > > Coda clients and servers use the ipv4 addresses as a 32-bit unique > identifier and the volume location query responses don't contain > hostnames, but ipv4 addresses. > > There is quite a bit of work left to get the clients and servers to the > point where we can actually use ipv6 addresses. > > > I am asking because it is quite easy these days to obtain an ipv6 prefix and > > then I would have more public IP adresses to replicate servers. > > And it would avoid having to go through masquerading firewalls, etc. > It definitely would be a good thing. > Are there proposals or whitepapers discussing the necessary protocol changes? Is there anything I could do to bring such efforts forward? I have a bit of spare time and coding experience. Also, if there are other pressing issues which might be easier to tackle I would also offer my help. MarkusReceived on 2008-09-10 09:11:54