INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?
Vadim Goncharov
vadim_nuclight at mail.ru
Wed Mar 5 09:37:55 UTC 2008
Hi Mark Andrews!
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:07:56 +1100; Mark Andrews wrote about 'Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?':
>>>> I'm not interested in enabling support for IPv6 for now.
>>>>
>>>> When I remove INET6 from the kernel configuration, I cannot compile the
>>>> kernel without disabling SCTP. With fresh 7.0-STABLE source, here's the
>>>> error output (INET6 disabled, but SCTP enabled):
>>> Yes, INET6 is (currently) required if you enable SCTP.
>>
>> Will it be fixed? Any time soon?
> It would be better to remove the option all together. IPv6
> is no longer a protocol under development. There is no
> need to make it optional any more. Having it there really
> sends the wrong signal.
I strongly disagree. I want to keep my machines without IPv6 as long as
possible due to protocol (not implementation) architectural bugs.
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