Drop CONFIG_IPV6 ?

[Philip Prindeville]

Yeah, I disable CONFIG_IPV6, since most American ISP's have started rolling out residential IPv6.  My local pop & pop ILEC hasn't deployed it.  There's not even an announced date for it on their roadmap.

I suspect that if everyone had an IPv6 address, which would be both routable and non-dynamic, then people could more easily run servers on their networks... which might be anethema to the ISP's.



> On Mar 13, 2022, at 5:31 PM, Etienne Champetier <champetier.etienne at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> We currently have some circular dependencies caused by the usage of
> PROVIDES and @IPV6
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/9407
> 
> One radical way to fix, suggested by Jow, is to completely remove
> CONFIG_IPV6 from OpenWrt.
> This would also allow to simplify packaging of some core components.
> 
> Is anyone disabling CONFIG_IPV6 ?
> Do people agree we can drop CONFIG_IPV6 ?
> Should we do this before we branch 22.x ?
> 
> Best
> Etienne