Drop CONFIG_IPV6 ?

[Philip Prindeville]

Er, *haven't started*


> On Mar 13, 2022, at 9:54 PM, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I disable CONFIG_IPV6, since most American ISP's have started rolling out residential IPv6.  My local pop & pop ILEC hasn't deployed it.  There's not even an announced date for it on their roadmap.
> 
> I suspect that if everyone had an IPv6 address, which would be both routable and non-dynamic, then people could more easily run servers on their networks... which might be anethema to the ISP's.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 13, 2022, at 5:31 PM, Etienne Champetier <champetier.etienne at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> We currently have some circular dependencies caused by the usage of
>> PROVIDES and @IPV6
>> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/9407
>> 
>> One radical way to fix, suggested by Jow, is to completely remove
>> CONFIG_IPV6 from OpenWrt.
>> This would also allow to simplify packaging of some core components.
>> 
>> Is anyone disabling CONFIG_IPV6 ?
>> Do people agree we can drop CONFIG_IPV6 ?
>> Should we do this before we branch 22.x ?
>> 
>> Best
>> Etienne
> 
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