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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:30:48 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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On 12/21/2010 03:25 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> On-topic:
> 
> Anyone working on or testing network device drivers should be using
> IPv6. IPv6 will exercise code paths and network behaviour that Legacy IP
> rarely does, in particular using multicast to do neighbour discovery.
> And on wireless networks when multicast will be handled differently by
> the AP, that makes more difference than on wired where it's mostly the
> MAC filters that get neglected.
> 
> I've seen a number of broken drivers because their authors were only
> testing with Legacy IP and not IPv6.
> 
> It's not hard to set up IPv6. Larry, if you need any pointers I'd be
> more than happy to help.

I have no problem setting it up. I disabled it mostly to reduce the number of
modules in a kernel recompile. It doesn't make much difference on either of my
multi-core boxes, but some of the lower-powered units already take hours to build.

I take your point, and will be reenabling IPv6.

Larry