RE: RE : [lwip-users] Status of IPv6

[Kieran Mansley]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 08:26 -0700, Grubb, Jared wrote:
> Well, if you're developing a brand new product from scratch, using IPv6
> is much more desirable. 
> 
> The fact that the current implementation is IPv4-only or IPv6-only does
> not preclude us from ALSO doing a dual stack, right?

It doesn't, but given that there is no one using IPv6 on lwIP at the
moment (or at least no one who will confess to it!) it doesn't seem like
a productive place to focus our efforts.  If in the future people are
willing to maintain and develop that part of the tree and there is a
demand for it, then it would be good to do something about it, but I'm
in no hurry.

The good part about it being IPv4 *or* IPv6 is that the build isn't in
any way bloated by IPv6 when most people only seem to want IPv4.
Although a dual stack could still have compile time options to remove
one or the other, there would likely still be some residual overhead. 

Kieran