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Subject:    [Storage_sig] Re: Support of IPv6 in NFS : New proposal
From:       Gilles Quillard <gilles.quillard () bull ! net>
Date:       2005-03-22 17:03:46
Message-ID: 42404FF2.9040004 () bull ! net
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Neil Brown wrote :

>On Friday March 18, Tony.Reix@bull.net wrote:
>  
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>>Hi Bryce, Trond, Bruce, Chuck, Neil,
>>
>>Gilles and Aure'lien have worked on defining a new solution for nicely integrating IPv6 into NFS.
>>
>>In the following paper (3 pages):		http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/doc/nfs_ipv6.php
>>they explain the rational and their proposal.
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>
>Using "method 1" for the server sounds right.
>  
>
Glad to read that.

>It is possible to have one socket bound so that it receives all IP4
>packets/connections to a particular port, and another socket bound to
>receive all the IPv6 packets/connections?   If so, this might make the
>code selection even easier.
>  
>
It's possible. This only requires to specify that the IPv6 socket is 
waiting only for IPv6 addresses (IPV6ONLY socket option). We planned to 
do that.

>Re: issues with the format of rmtab, I would simply ignore it.  rmtab
>is not needed any more, and declaring it unsupported for IPv6 would be
>a very sensible thing to do.
>  
>
Fine. We'll ignore it for IPv6.

Thanks for your comments,
Gilles

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