YaST/Research/Installation in IPv6 Environment

From openSUSE

Description

Allow installation in IPv6 environments.

This would mean

• make linuxrc IPv6 aware
• extend linuxrc -> yast interface for IPv6 network setup
• check that yast can work with IPv6 URLs for repos
• copy configuration of installation network into installed system (by YaST)
• be able to configure IPv6 network in YaST

Relevance to YaST/openSUSE

Goal

Installation using only IPv6 should work.

Scope

Related technologies

Make YaST more IPv6 compatible

Typical use case

Required knowledge and skill level

medium

Dev. environment/equipment

An IPv6 test setup, probably.

Participants

• Steffen Winterfeldt
• Hubert Mantel
• Michal Zugec

Current Status

The current status of the project.

• how far the project is
• list of open issues
• link to the implementation description
• link to code repository

Division of work and schedule

Describe how work should be divided among participants and a rough schedule for the week.

References

Useful documentation and references. Including a link to a extended wiki page.

• http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoD_IPv6_Product_Certification
• http://www.sixxs.net/