Subj : IPv6 & ifcico?
To   : Kees Van Eeten
From : Rj Clay
Date : Mon Dec 02 2013 10:22:12

Kees,

 28 Nov 13 07:14, you wrote to me:

> The ifcico I use is the one that comes in the regular Debian distribution.
> It crashes on my system, when I try to use some of the dialing conditions,
> and it may not be 100% 64bit safe.

   I primarily run and develop on Debian (plus Ubuntu) so it's the Debian
version that I run as well.  I plan to work on it at least enough to create a debug package for it, so I can work on trying to find the problems.
   I will be putting that version (possibly along with the original
ifmail/ifcico) into a git repo in order to work on that, and I already have MBSE BBS and QICO in git repositories; might could just do some comparisons to what the 'newer' code did...


> The only connects I have are on the Pots line.

  I likely did try using it for POTS calls but if so, it would have been some
time ago... (Haven't even had a POTS line for awhile, although I've been thinking about getting one again...)


> As far as I know there is no Ipv6 in ifcico, but for incoming traffic I
> understand, that that is handled by the Inetd daemon. So I can only have
> incoming IPv6 traffic there.

> For outgoing traffic on IPv6, the extended devoloment of ifcico, qico has
> possibillities for IPv6. Atleast, there is a patch by Andre Gruenenberg
> who also provided the IPv6 for Binkd. Andre has recently left Fidonet.

> I looked into qico, it may have many of the flaws in ifcico removed, but
> to me the config file looks like a swiss armyknife, it want to do everything.

   I'm also somewhat involved with qico (member of the SourceProject and I'd
like to package it for use on Debian/Ubuntu) but I've not had a chance to work on it.  Don't recall if what I have already has IPv6 related changes; I'd have to check the code repository and/or find my notes.  (still getting set up at my new place...)


> Another source for what to adapt could be mbcico by Michiel Broek, who
> delveloped MBBBS. That is also a derivative of ifcico, with binkd added.

   Yes, I have that (but haven't had chance to work on the packaging for the
release version); and MBSE BBS has been released as v1.01, which includes the IPv6 code.


> With ifcico that does not help, because I do not think that there is
> any development being done.

   There's not, that I'm aware of;  neither the original version (which is
available at a SourceForge project) nor the tx version that's in Debian. 



> I think that Benny Pedersen has used qico on IPv6,

  IIRC, that's who I tested with last year; IPv6 via an HE tunnel, using a test
package of MBSE BBS with the IPv6 changes.




Jame

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