On 12/21/2010 03:25 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On-topic: > > Anyone working on or testing network device drivers should be using > IPv6. IPv6 will exercise code paths and network behaviour that Legacy IP > rarely does, in particular using multicast to do neighbour discovery. > And on wireless networks when multicast will be handled differently by > the AP, that makes more difference than on wired where it's mostly the > MAC filters that get neglected. > > I've seen a number of broken drivers because their authors were only > testing with Legacy IP and not IPv6. > > It's not hard to set up IPv6. Larry, if you need any pointers I'd be > more than happy to help. I have no problem setting it up. I disabled it mostly to reduce the number of modules in a kernel recompile. It doesn't make much difference on either of my multi-core boxes, but some of the lower-powered units already take hours to build. I take your point, and will be reenabling IPv6. Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
