openssh and linux ipv6

[José M. Fandiño]

> 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

sorry, I don't see any pitfalls about linux integration with ipv6 
and openssh in this page :-?
 


> > > 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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