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RE: SECDIR review: draft-ietf-v6ops-tunnel-concerns

Nathan,

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nathan Ward [mailto:v6ops@daork.net]
>Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 9:13 PM
>To: Templin, Fred L
>Cc: Brian E Carpenter; Suresh Krishnan; Christian Huitema; Kurt
Zeilenga; Pasi Eronen; Tim Polk;
>secdir@mit.edu; Jim_Hoagland@symantec.com; Dave Thaler;
v6ops@ops.ietf.org
>Subject: Re: SECDIR review: draft-ietf-v6ops-tunnel-concerns
>
>On 10/01/2009, at 12:08 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
>
>>> Hmm, it's probably worth noting that I'm talking about Windows hosts
>>> here. Linux hosts with a Teredo stack installed will not try ISATAP
>>> first.
>>
>> I may be able to help with that. Tell me what behavior
>> you want out of ISATAP on linux, and I'll code it...
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>
>Support in major distributions seems like a good first step. I note
>that your code is now in 2.6.mumble though, that's a positive step.
>
>While we're here, OS X and BSD support would be nice too.

I'll check and see if there is still a FBSD port. If not,
and if someone wants to port the linux implementation, that
would be fine with me. Otherwise, I'll put it on my todo list.

Thanks - Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com

>There seems to be a bit of a lack of coherent vision for IPv6 support
>in OSes other than Windows. There are components - ie. 6to4, Teredo
>and ISATAP code - however there doesn't seem to be anything to relate
>them to one another so that 'end users' without a bunch of knowledge
>can use this stuff. A good first step would be to install+configure
>all three together as part of the "Enable IPv6" option. Along with
>that, take a DHCPv6 client, etc. etc.
>"Enable IPv6" in most OSes means do stateless autoconfig for native
>IPv6, and that's it.
>
>--
>Nathan Ward
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