Re: ipv6

Hey,

On 01 Mar 2014, at 17:00, Andreas Vögele <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nick Edwards <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> [...] This is not for home use, I have them assigned by editing
>> rc.inet1 which we know, we should never do since it will be overwrote
>> every update
> 
> rc.inet1 and rc.wireless are both marked as configuration files and
> won't be overwritten by default.  Furthermore, there's no need to
> install the wireless-tools package, which provides the regular
> rc.wireless script, on servers.  Just create your own script of that
> name and it will never be touched by any package management tool.

Sticking IPv6 in rc.wireless, even if said file is never overwritten
by upgrading tools, and even if it is not needed on a server-class 
machine, strikes me as a pretty poor hack. Useful, yes, but definitely
not a clean solution.

I tend to agree with Nick & Noel here: what is needed is either a set
of IPV6-specific rc scripts or (even better) integration of IPv6 functions
in the standard rc.inet1 scripts.

— Gil.