Subject: Re: IPv6 support in install floppy
To: None <tech-install@netbsd.org>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-install
Date: 01/04/2000 17:41:06
>>	I would like to commit changes to support IPv6 transport in install
>>	floppy (query DNS over IPv6, grab tar.gz over IPv6 ftp).
>>	This is basically an integration of work done by Ichiro Fukuhara
>>	<ichiro@ichiro.org> for KAME/NetBSD141.  The boot floppy will:
>>	- ask user if he wants IPv6 connectivity, and if he said yes,
>>	  tries to autoconfigure itself as IPv6 host
>>	  (you do not need to type IPv6 address of the host, nor router)
>>	- let you pick IPv6 DNS server from famous ones, or let you type that
>>	  in.  as IPv6 addresses are harder to remember I thought this is a
>>	  good thing to add.  this may be hard to maintain the list of DNS
>>	  servers, though.
>	committed the change.  to enable IPv6 support in other architectures,
>	please perform the following changes:

	sorry too many typos. 

	1. add "options INET6" to kernel configuration
	   (like sys/arch/i386/conf/INSTALL)
	2. add "-DINET6" into distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/something/Makefile
	   to enable IPv6 autoconf support.
	3. bring in x_ping6 and rtsol into ramdisk packaging

itojun