On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:55:31PM +0200, Julius Volz wrote: > Hi Horms, > > Here comes the whole batch again! I've fixed almost all style issues > reported by checkpatch.pl, except for some little things which look like > they could stay like they are for now (down to 3 warnings and 2 errors). > I also integrated your other comments and removed the patch that > adds the changelog information (not needed anymore, according to > Stephen). > > These patches are based on lvs-2.6: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/lvs-2.6.git > > - Full kernel patch in one file: > http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~volz/ipvs_ipv6/ipvs_ipv6_v3.patch > > While not all IPv6 features are working or tested, existing IPv4 features > should still work as before. However, to use any of the new features, you > will need a new ipvsadm with support for genetlink and IPv6: > > http://sixpak.org/vince/google/ipvsadm/ > (by Vince Busam) > > To enable IPv6 support in IPVS, set CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6=y. > > Short overview: > > What works with IPv6: > - forwarding mechanisms: NAT, DR, maybe Tunnel (not fully tested yet) > - protocols: TCP, UDP, ESP, AH (last two not tested) > - manipulation and inspection of both IPv4 and IPv6 entries with ipvsadm > - 6 out of 10 schedulers > > What is not supported with IPv6: > - handling fragmentation or other extension headers > - FTP application helper (can be loaded, but only operates on v4) > - sync daemon (can be started, but only operates on v4) > - probably some incorrect handling of ICMPv6 or other corner cases > > Since fragmentation and extension headers should not occur very often, > things should "mostly" work. I tested HTTP and DNS over NAT and DR > with various supported schedulers without encountering any problems. > But we didn't test any exotic situations. Also, there are some TODOs > in the code for things that haven't been tested or implemented yet. > > Thanks for any comments! Hi Julius, Hi Vince, I have applied all of these patches to the lvs-next-2.6 branch of the lvs-2.6 tree and I will ask Dave to pull these into net-next-2.6 shortly. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/lvs-2.6.git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lvs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
