Upcoming 8.0: IPv6 only Kernel yet?

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steven_sorel

Just curious if a rumor I heard was true. If I can compile an IPv6 only kernel in the upcoming release! If anyone knows, you'd make my day! :)
 
As far as I remember this has been discussed at the devsummit in Cambridge as a feature which we would like to have in 9.0...
 
dennylin93 said:
It seems that IPv6 hasn't been widely adopted yet. Perhaps this will gradually change in the future.
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I don't see this happening any time soon. More than a decade since it's inception, it's still only used by a tiny minority.
The transition is difficult since IPv6 is not fully and automatically compatible with IPv4.
 
I think it's possible to build a kernel which doesn't have any IP support, but I don't think you can currently build an INET6-only kernel. At least when I tried to build one on 9-CURRENT a few days ago I got a compile error due to an unused label in one C file, and once that was fixed I got linker errors in other files, including if_ether.c.
 
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