From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Tue 28 Dec 2004 - 17:33:29 GMT
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:43:45PM +0100, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is an excerpt from util-vserver-0.30.196/doc/cfg.txt:
>
> /etc/vservers
> |-- <vserver>
> `-- interfaces
> |-- [dev]
> |-- [prefix]
> |-- [mask]
> |-- [bcast]
> `-- <interface>*
> |-- ip
> |-- [dev]
> |-- [prefix]
> |-- [mask]
> |-- [bcast]
> |-- [name]
> |-- [scope]
> |-- [only_ip] ... use only the ip; do not modify/set
> | the interface
> `-- [disabled] ... ignore this interface
>
> This looks pretty much IPv4-centristic to me. Is that correct?
>
> If so, I think IPv6 support should be added in a way that IPv4 and
> IPv6 are equally represented. Something like this:
>
> /etc/vservers
> |-- <vserver>
> `-- interfaces
> |-- [dev]
> |-- ipv4
> | |-- [prefix]
> | |-- [mask] 1.2.3.0/24 notation is better
> | `-- [bcast]
> |-- ipv6
> | |-- [prefix]
> | `-- [prefixlength]
> `-- <interface>*
>
> Something similar should then be done under <interface>*.
this or a similar solution will be required, but as I
see it ngnet (next generation networking) is mandatory
for ipv6, and that will change the 'to be configured'
stuff anyway, as the tools need to do different things
than they do now ...
> Unfortunately I don't know enough details about vserver yet to judge
> whether what I described above
>
> a) is feasible from a technical point of view
>
> b) is sensible from a simplicity and consistency point of view
>
> c) is feasible from a political point of view
> (concerns for installed base of vservers with different
> configuration)
>
> Support for IPv6 in the vserver kernel patch will appear some time
> soon, and there is no configuration for IPv6 yet, so the matter of
> configuring IPv6 has to be raised one way or the other anyway :)
yep, appreciate it ...
please keep this discussion going (maybe some typical
ipv6 examples or so?) so we can get a feeling for it.
thanks,
Herbert
> Gruß,
>
> Uli
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