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- Notes for IPv6
- --------------
-
- If you are using libc5, you may need to edit the Makefile so that
- libinet6 is linked in and your IPv6 include files are found in the
- right place. The definitions in question are at about line 91. You may
- also find that the header files provided with inet6-apps are not exactly
- what net-tools expects. This is not a bug in net-tools as such and will
- not be fixed in future releases (though if anybody would like to contribute
- a patch I would be happy to add a pointer to it here.) If you have the
- option you might consider changing to glibc instead (see below) in which
- case you can use the header files supplied with the C library.
-
- If you use glibc, you should ensure that you have version 2.1 or later
- installed. The 2.1 release is available from
- <ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/glibc among> other places. With this
- version of the C library there should be no need to edit the Makefile
- or apply any patches to net-tools.
-
- Version 2.0 of glibc has no support for IPv6; patches did exist at one
- point but they are now seriously outdated. Instead you should upgrade
- to glibc 2.1.
-
- BUGS
- ----
-
- "ifconfig eth0 add ..." does not currently auto-load the IPv6 module.
-
-