Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/5] ipv4-only and ipv6-only support

[Samuel Thibault]

Peter Maydell, on Thu 31 Mar 2016 12:30:24 +0100, wrote:
> On 31 March 2016 at 10:20, Samuel Thibault <address@hidden> wrote:
> >   http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/qemu.git tags/samuel-thibault-2
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to c99751f2a711e9eecf60901520c6d4197bdaf9b4:
> >
> >   slirp: Add RDNSS advertisement (2016-03-31 11:18:13 +0200)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > slirp updates (2)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Samuel Thibault (5):
> >       slirp: Allow disabling IPv4 or IPv6
> >       slirp: Split get_dns_addr
> >       slirp: Add dns6 resolution
> >       slirp: Support link-local DNS addresses
> >       slirp: Add RDNSS advertisement
> 
> 
> Some of these look suspiciously "new feature" -- can you provide
> a brief justification for why they should go in after hardfreeze, please?

The first commit, at least, would very probably be welcome: now that
ipv6 will be enabled by default, this may disturb some people for
whatever reason, so they may want to have a way to disable it.

Also, some people may want to start testing ipv6-only setups. The 4
subsequent commits are useful in such setups, to automatically setup the
DNS server address. It is not strictly needed, since the user can set by
hand inside the guest an external DNS server IPv6 address to be used.

Samuel