quagga proposing to drop support for systems without IPv6

[Greg Troxel]

(quagga is one of the leading Free Software routing protocol daemons, and
runs well on NetBSD.)

quagga is proposing to drop the "--disable-ipv6" flag, which avoids
including v6 headers. One will still be able to turn off OSPFv3 (for
v6) and RIPng.

This seems fine for us; I'm pretty sure not even mouse@ has a running
NetBSD system without v6 header files :-) I can't pin down the date from
memory, but I think we had IPv6 in the 2nd half of the 90s. And I'm not
aware of any currently-maintained operating system out there without v6
support.

Does anyone see any reasons why this a) would be problematic on NetBSD
or b) (OT I know) be problematic anywhere else?

[Mouse]

Post by Greg Troxel
quagga is proposing to drop the "--disable-ipv6" flag, which avoids
including v6 headers. [...]
NetBSD system without v6 header files :-)

:-)

True - though, depending on the details of what it's expecting, I may
have systems with whose v6 header files it won't work.

Not that it matters much in practice; it's nigh on certain that getting
quagga to build for me would be an exercise in bludgeoning, especially
since what you say implies it's drunk the ./configure koolaid, which
always makes things hell to build - and correlates positively and
fairly strongly with other things which make software difficult to
build. I'd be more likely to write my own.

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[Ignatios Souvatzis]

Post by Greg Troxel
(quagga is one of the leading Free Software routing protocol daemons, and
runs well on NetBSD.)
quagga is proposing to drop the "--disable-ipv6" flag, which avoids
including v6 headers. One will still be able to turn off OSPFv3 (for
v6) and RIPng.
NetBSD system without v6 header files :-) I can't pin down the date from
memory, but I think we had IPv6 in the 2nd half of the 90s.

post-netbsd-1.4, June 1999, if I read that cvs log right. First release
would have been netbsd-1.5

-is

[Mouse]

running NetBSD system without v6 header files :-)

post-netbsd-1.4, June 1999, if I read that cvs log right. First
release would have been netbsd-1.5

The oldest version mouse@ is running is (a semi-private evolution of)
1.4T, and it is indeed v6-capable.

There probably is someone running something older out there; I know an
ISP that's running 1.5.2 on at least one of its internal machines (not
particularly thanks to me); there's likely to be even older floating
around somewhere.

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