From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Julius Volz" Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 00/24] Add first IPv6 support to IPVS Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:54:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1220363423-8618-1-git-send-email-juliusv@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: horms@verge.net.au, kaber@trash.net, vbusam@google.com To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1220363423-8618-1-git-send-email-juliusv@google.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: lvs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Sorry, please ignore the bogus patches in response to this email. I was in the wrong directory when using git-send-email with *.patch :( Real patches in next post in a second. On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:50 PM, 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 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! > > Julius > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lvs-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Julius Volz - Corporate Operations - SysOps Google Switzerland GmbH - Identification No.: CH-020.4.028.116-1