From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot now requires IPv6? References: <20160711164358.GT3870@tarshish> <20160712164820.GC3680@free.fr> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2016-07-12, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > >> Only uClibc is mentioned here because other C libraries already enable IPv6 >> unconditionally. > > But nothing prevents you from running on a kernel that does not have > IPv6. Cool. That's what I was planning on doing, but I hadn't tried it yet. > The requirements are only about IPv6 support in the toolchain. > Maintaining support for non-IPv6 toolchains was becoming quite a > problem, as more and more packages were breaking with such toolchains. That's understandable. > And come on, we're in 2016, there is no more IPv4 available, it's time > to switch over to IPV6! ;-] The devices I use buildroot for are never connected to the Internet. Most of the time they're on an air-gapped network with at most a dozen or two nodes -- so IPv4 works fine. Although using IPv6 with link-local addresses and auto-discovery would be even better, these customer are just barely getting the hang of Ethernet and IPv4... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My CODE of ETHICS at is vacationing at famed gmail.com SCHROON LAKE in upstate New York!!