[ANN] host-setup 4.0 released

[Rick Macklem]

David Teske wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mohacsi Janos [mailto:mohacsi at niif.hu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 3:59 AM
> > To: Devin Teske
> > Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org; Dave Robison; Devin Teske
> > Subject: Re: [ANN] host-setup 4.0 released
> >
> > Hi Devin,
> >  	I had a look at the code. It is very nice,
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> > however there are same missing
> > elements:
> >  	- IPv6 support
> 
> Open to suggestions.
> 
> Maybe adding a "ipaddr6" below "ipaddr" in the interface configuration
> menu.
> 
> Also, do you happen to know what the RFC number is for IPv6 address
> format? I
> need to know all the special "features" (for example, I know you can
> specify
> "::1" for localhost, but can you simply omit octets at-will? e.g.,
> ::ff:12:00:::
> ?)
> 
The basics are in RFC4291, but I think that inet_pton(3) knows how to
deal with it. (I think "::" can be used once to specify the longest #
of 16bit fields that are all zeros.)

After inet_pton() has translated it to a binary address, then the macros
in sys/netinet6/in6.h can be used to determine if the address is a loopback, etc.

I'm no ip6 guy by any means, so others, please correct/improve on this, as required.

rick
> 
> >  	- VLAN tagging support - creation/deleting
> 
> How is that done these days? and how might we present it in the user
> interface?
> --
> Devin
> 
> 
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Janos Mohacsi
> > Head of HBONE+ project
> > Network Engineer, Deputy Director of Network Planning and Projects
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> >
> > On Mon, 2 Jan 2012, Devin Teske wrote:
> >
> > > Hi fellow -hackers,
> > >
> > > I'd like to announce the release of a major new revision (4.0) of
> > > my
> > > FreeBSD setup utility "host-setup".
> > >
> > > http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > Direct Link:
> > > http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt
> > >
> > > NOTE: Make sure to hit "refresh" to "defeat the cache"
> > >
> > > Major highlights of this version are listed on the druidbsd
> > > homepage.
> > >
> > > For those unfamiliar with my "host-setup", it's a manly shell
> > > script
> > > designed to make it super-easy to configure the following:
> > > 1. Timezone
> > > 2. Hostname/Domain
> > > 3. Network Interface Settings
> > > 4. Default Router/Gateway
> > > 5. DNS nameservers
> > >
> > > All from an easy-to-use dialog(1) or Xdialog(1)* interface
> > >
> > > * Fully compatible and tested -- simply pass `-X' while in a
> > > usable X
> > > environment
> > > --
> > > Devin
> > >
> > > P.S. Feedback most certainly is welcomed!
> > >
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