svn commit: r333283 - in head: etc/mtree include share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/net sys/netinet/netdump

Mark Johnston markj at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 12 16:49:08 UTC 2018


On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 03:10:54PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On 6 May 2018, at 0:38, Mark Johnston wrote:
> 
> > Author: markj
> > Date: Sun May  6 00:38:29 2018
> > New Revision: 333283
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/333283
> >
> > Log:
> >   Import the netdump client code.
> 
> So this is an IPv4-only feature;  what would be needed to add IPv6 
> support to netdump?  I don’t like (a) new features going into the tree 
> w/ only IPv4 support and (b) I noticed I can’t use it where I might 
> need it..

One would at least need to:
- ensure that dumpon(8) can pass IPv6 configuration parameters to the
  kernel,
- add code to add IPv6 headers to outbound packets,
- add code to process inbound IPv6 packets,
- use ND to resolve the gateway.

> Can we fix this?

Sure.  I can't promise I will get to it in the near future, but I'm
happy to review patches.


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