openssh and linux ipv6

[carl at bl.echidna.id.au]

> From: Markus Friedl <Markus.Friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
> 
> hi, is anyone using  IPv6+linux?  -m

Quite a few poor people who haven't seen the light of BSD :)

Take a look at Peter Beringer's page :

http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/systems/linux/bieringer/default.html



> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:59:09AM +0100, José M. Fandiño wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> > 
> >   I'm getting a system freeze when I use a linux ipv6 capable kernel.
> > 
> > My configuration is a linux kernel-2.2.18 with ipv6
> > as module(suse 6.4), openssl 0.9.5 and Openssh-2.5.1p2,
> > with a default sshd_config file.
> > 
> > I installed openssh with this line
> > ./configure  --prefix=/usr --with-cflags='-L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/ssl' 
> > --without-pam --with-ipv4-default --without-4in6 --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh 
> > --disable-suid-ssh  && make && make install
> > 
> > localhost in /etc/hosts looks like this:
> > 127.0.0.1	localhost 
> > ::1		localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
> > 
> > then I do a "telnet localhost 22" and see the text
> > Trying ::1...
> > and the system is totally stopped and only a reboot is possible.
> > 
> > I'm not sure that this is a linux kernel specific bug or it affects to
> > openssh in any way. If not excuse me by waste your time.
> > 
> > best regards,
> > 
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