On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 08:29:47PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Good time of day, network hackers. > > Could you please explain, why ipv6 now requires ipv4 for compilation? > Is it needed so strong, and have you any plans for changeing this? > And if you are going to do such thing, will you need some newbie help? :) > If this is so, than could you give me a start point. It requires rather severe surgery. Sometime long ago (2-3 years) I looked at it, and while I had done modularization of ipv4 in about a week, splitting it into generic TCP and UDP codes in addition to protocol dependent ones wasn't appealing... After all, IPv6 re-uses (by calling them) several IPv4 protocol family subsystems. If you think you don't need ipv4 in the system at all, you might be able to shed about 100 kB code out of memory out of about 300 kB of IPv4 code. > Thanks in advance for answers and disscussion. > Evgeniy Polyakov ( s0mbre ). /Matti Aarnio - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
