* [PATCH] IPV6: CONFIG_IPV6 Documentation update
@ 2003-10-28 15:35 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-10-28 15:41 ` David S. Miller
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From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 @ 2003-10-28 15:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: davem; +Cc: netdev
Hello.
CONFIG_IPV6 Documentation update.
Specifically, there are no descriptions on net-tools in
Documentation/Changes.
Thanks.
===== net/Kconfig 1.26 vs edited =====
--- 1.26/net/Kconfig Sun Oct 5 15:50:47 2003
+++ edited/net/Kconfig Wed Oct 29 00:31:40 2003
@@ -120,8 +120,10 @@
tristate "The IPv6 protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
---help---
- This is experimental support for the next version of the Internet
- Protocol: IP version 6 (also called IPng "IP next generation").
+ This is experimental support for the IP version 6 (formerly called
+ IPng "IP next generation"). You will still be able to do
+ regular IPv4 networking as well.
+
Features of this new protocol include: expanded address space,
authentication and privacy, and seamless interoperability with the
current version of IP (IP version 4). For general information about
@@ -130,12 +132,10 @@
<http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/> and the file net/ipv6/README
in the kernel source.
- If you want to use IPv6, please upgrade to the newest net-tools as
- given in <file:Documentation/Changes>. You will still be able to do
- regular IPv4 networking as well.
-
- To compile this protocol support as a module, choose M here: the
- module will be called ipv6.
+ To compile this protocol support as a module, choose M here: the
+ module will be called ipv6. If you try building this as a module
+ and you have said Y to "Kernel module loader support" above,
+ be sure to add 'alias net-pf-10 ipv6' to your /etc/modules.conf file.
It is safe to say N here for now.
--
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI @ USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
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* Re: [PATCH] IPV6: CONFIG_IPV6 Documentation update
2003-10-28 15:35 [PATCH] IPV6: CONFIG_IPV6 Documentation update YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
@ 2003-10-28 15:41 ` David S. Miller
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From: David S. Miller @ 2003-10-28 15:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / _$B5HF#1QL@; +Cc: netdev
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:35:36 +0900 (JST)
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / _$B5HF#1QL@ <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> wrote:
> CONFIG_IPV6 Documentation update.
>
> Specifically, there are no descriptions on net-tools in
> Documentation/Changes.
Applied, thank you.
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