Subject: Re: (KAME-snap 242) NetBSD: how to sync with current?
To: Erik Bertelsen <erik@mediator.uni-c.dk>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 12/04/1998 13:58:34
>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Bertelsen <erik@mediator.uni-c.dk> writes:
>> Putting KAME into NetBSD repository will solve the problem (of
>> course) but there are many issues for that: - we have to make
>> KAME -Werror clean :-) - we need to think again about type of
>> protosw[] and chained header processing, so that KAME can be
>> more compatible with traditional 4.4BSD network stack. - it
>> needs NetBSD core team's agreement, of course. I heard last
>> spring that NetBSD is planning to go with INRIA IPv6
>> distribution. I see no move so far since then...
Erik> Neither have I -- We have machines running with NetBSD and
Erik> both the KAME and INRIA IPv6 software, and we just slowly
Erik> learning both to know, but cannot give any well-founded
I will be working on integrating KAME's IPsec (which is why I prefer
KAME to INRIA v6) into my NetBSD-intl CVS tree over the upcoming
holidays. I import -current into my tree approxiately once every two
weeks, sometimes more often.
Erik> To avoid delaying NetBSD 1.4 further, I suspect that it is
Erik> not realistic to do this before 1.4 has been released.
Just the same, we the more work we do now, the better, and I have
need for the code.
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