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| author |   Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> | 1998-12-11 10:48:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> | 1998-12-11 10:48:49 +0000 |
| commit | 49241d20f94b60ac08b5fdb10c81ce2e2aaf1c58 (patch) | |
| tree | f6fd22721d02e699c23f84cbe004eba40a9efbbb /README.ipv6 | |
| parent | Miscellaneous minor mods. Unless anything turns up in the next (diff) | |
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Few random typo/documentation fixes.
(Partly taken from the Debian netbase package.)
Released as 1.49
Diffstat (limited to 'README.ipv6')
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.ipv6 b/README.ipv6 index 94a7380..b069f19 100644 --- a/README.ipv6 +++ b/README.ipv6 @@ -1,13 +1,27 @@ -Notes for IPv6. +Notes for IPv6 +-------------- If you are using libc5, you may need to edit the Makefile so that libinet6 is linked in and your IPv6 include files are found in the -right place. The definitions in question are at about line 91. +right place. The definitions in question are at about line 91. You may +also find that the header files provided with inet6-apps are not exactly +what net-tools expects. This is not a bug in net-tools as such and will +not be fixed in future releases (though if anybody would like to contribute +a patch I would be happy to add a pointer to it here.) If you have the +option you might consider changing to glibc instead (see below) in which +case you can use the header files supplied with the C library. -If you use glibc, you should get the latest 2.1 snapshot. In this -case you do not need to edit the Makefile or apply any patches. -Version 2.0 of glibc has no support for IPv6. +If you use glibc, you should get the latest 2.1 release (or pre-release) +that you can find; look in sourceware.cygnus.com:/pub/glibc. 2.1 prereleases +have version numbers 2.0.x where x is greater than 90. With such a libc +installed there should be no need to edit the Makefile or patch net-tools. -You may find that you are missing files such as <netinet/ip6.h>. This is -not a bug in net-tools; you should find some newer include files. +Version 2.0 of glibc has no support for IPv6. Patches did exist at one +point but they are now seriously updated. Consider upgrading to glibc 2.1 +instead. + +BUGS +---- + +"ifconfig eth0 add ..." does not currently auto-load the IPv6 module. |