Message-ID: <4F9986A2.10900@...1114...> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:32:18 +0200 From: David Sommerseth MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1335441085-18186-1-git-send-email-davids@...1347...> <20120426172410.GT1359@...1296...> In-Reply-To: <20120426172410.GT1359@...1296...> Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Presume that Linux is always IPv6 capable at build time List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Gert Doering Cc: Alon Bar-Lev , openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26/04/12 19:24, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 07:03:40PM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> I plan to add --enable-ipv6/--disable-ipv6 to explicit support >> ipv6. > > NAK. > > We considered this, and this will add a shitload of #ifdefs which > will make maintenance of the code a lot harder. > > (We actually *removed* all the #ifdefs of JJO's IPv6 transport > code, because it really hurt) > > We're in the year 2012, there are no operating systems without IPv6 > support anymore, and it does not make sense to have a VPN > implementation that has no IPv6 support. Just for the record, I completely agree with Gert here. Actually we should focus on getting OpenVPN work better in IPv6-only environments - - but that's probably something for the 2.4 cycle. kind regards, David Sommerseth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+ZhqIACgkQDC186MBRfrpv2QCgoc6BtPxufXasfiXS8e2VZFwJ 5bAAn2CrZ4I8HJ+vyc6LI3PMnF2LKJI0 =xyRg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----