Subject: no v4, slip this time
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/16/2002 16:52:28
Does anyone know of any work done to do something SLIP-like for IPv6?
It would be pretty much a no-brainer to extend SLIP to handle IPv6; it
could even be done compatibly (in that the same line could handle v4
and v6 intermixed).  I had a quick gander through the RFCs and didn't
see anything; I conjecture that everyone who's wanted v6 has gone with
PPP.  But PPP is unsatisfactory to me in various ways, which is why I'm
using SLIP in the first place.

I would just hack on if_sl* except that if someone _has_ done something
of the sort, I'd like to at least consider being compatible.

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