[Linux-ha-dev] [PATCH] IPv6 HBcomm plugin

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:42, Keisuke MORI <kskmori at intellilink.co.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> writes:
>
>> Hi Keisuke-san,
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 06:04:58PM +0900, Keisuke MORI wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been implementing HBcomm plugin to enable IPv6
>>> communication among the cluster nodes and the ping nodes.
>>>
>>> It is still an experimental implementation and
>>> I would appreciate on any feedback.
>>
>> One quick question: Why did you create a new plugin instead of
>> extending the existing ones with IPv6 capabilities?
>>
>
> Well, no big reasons but
>
>  - I wanted to preserve the old code untouched for the stability.
>  - It would have many if/cases to sepalete AF_INET/AF_INET6 codes,
>   particularly in the ping code.

both good reasons IMHO

and in case anyone cares... the new pingd tool (the stand-alone
version that supports both stacks) also supports IPv6