IPv6 userland cleanup

Mihir Luthra luthramihir708 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 02:17:58 UTC 2019


Hi everyone,

I have started working on the project ipv6 userland cleanup [1]. I
introduced myself here almost 2 months [2] ago but couln't really start
with project before due to time constraints. Now I started with replacing
some gethostby* calls with getaddrinfo(3).
I have some code with me which I want to submit for reviewing.
I had created an account on phabricator. Can it be approved by someone?

Also, while replacing gethostby* calls, I came across arp. I learned that
arp command is only for ipv4 while ipv6 uses ndp protocol. I was wondering
if it would be useful to make a ndp command for ipv6 just like arp is for
ipv4?

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#IPv6_Userland_Cleanup
[2] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2019-June/053753.html

Kind Regards,
Mihir


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