IPv6 and PPP for ELKS

IPv6 and PPP for ELKS

[Pooja Nagpal]

Hello!

I am Pooja Nagpal from Bangalore, India. I have written a small IPv6 module for ELKS.
Since ELKS is targetted at systems with minimal requirements, the implementation is 
based on the draft - Minimum Requirements of IPv6 for Low Cost Network Appliances 
<draft-okabe-ipv6-lcna-minreq-01.txt>. 

However, since the ELKS implemented IPv4 over SLIP, the IPv6 module also communicated 
using SLIP. However, IPv6 does not use SLIP as the lower layer in the real world and 
operating systems like Linux etc provide IPv6 support over PPP, Ethernet etc.

So, to test the IPv6 module with another operating system, I have started writing a 
PPP daemon for ELKS. It just negotiates the basic LCP connection. An NCP is required 
to complete the negotiation for the IPv6 layer. I am not sure how to design the NCP
and whether the code needs to be in the kernel like in Linux. 

I'd like to discuss the implementation so far with anyone who is interested or has any 
other suggestions.

Thanks,
Pooja

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Re: IPv6 and PPP for ELKS

[Paul Nasrat]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:35:02AM -0700, Pooja Nagpal wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am Pooja Nagpal from Bangalore, India. I have written a small IPv6 module for ELKS.
> Since ELKS is targetted at systems with minimal requirements, the implementation is 
> based on the draft - Minimum Requirements of IPv6 for Low Cost Network Appliances 
> <draft-okabe-ipv6-lcna-minreq-01.txt>. 

That's really interesting.

> I'd like to discuss the implementation so far with anyone who is interested or has any 
> other suggestions.

OK - why don't you put up your code as unified diffs on a web server so
people can have a look and try it out.  If you don't have space anywhere
let me know.

If it's small you could send it gzipped to the list but there are limits
on attachment size.

Aiming to spend some time on stuff over the weekend...

Paul