Re: [Qemu-devel] Working on IPv6 -net user support

[Samuel Thibault]

Jan Kiszka, le Tue 26 Feb 2013 12:40:58 +0100, a écrit :
> On 2013-02-26 12:23, Guillaume Subiron wrote:
> > I represent a group of french network students in master degree
> > working on Qemu. Our tutor is Samuel Thibault. He asked us to come on
> > this list.
> > 
> > Our development project consists in implementing IPv6 support in Qemu
> > in the -net user case. We will start with the ground features like NDP
> > and UDP.
> 
> Interesting! Will you extend/refactor the existing slirp code for this
> or add something else?

It will rather be an extension/refactorization.

> > It also seems that IPv6 should already work in socket mcast, but
> > doesn't. We'll also start by trying to debug that.
> 
> That's in fact a different corner of QEMU. Not sure if it should work
> already, but maybe it's just -netdev socket (broken for ipv4) vs. -net
> socket.

ipv6 already works with -net socket,listen while it doesn't with -net
socket,mcast.  I don't see any ground reason for one to be working but
not the other, thus trying to see what is wrong with the other.

Samuel