Re: IPv6 enabled Squid - how?

I have not done a "blind" update of the patch to current HEAD, but some
work remains in IPv6 enabling the new additions before it will build
correctly again..

Anyone wanting to take a stab at it?

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> Peter Bieringer wrote:
>
> > Looks like there are some existing buchs in this branch
>
> It should, as it is not fully finished yet.
>
> > 1) configure without "--disable-wccp" breaks compiling in
> > src/cf_parser.c
>
> And so is documented for the ipv6 branch
> <http://devel.squid-cache.org/ipv6/>
>
> > 2) src/acl.c has a not really C conform source part (using gcc-2.96):
> >
> > --- src/acl.c.cvsorig Thu Oct 25 10:00:25 2001
> > +++ src/acl.c Thu Oct 25 10:03:27 2001
> > @@ -2252,8 +2252,8 @@
> > if (ADDR_IS_ANYADDR(q->addr2)) {
> > return memcmp(&A, &q->addr1, sizeof(struct IN_ADDR));
> > } else {
> > - if (memcmp(&A, &q->addr1, sizeof(struct IN_ADDR)) => 0) &
> > - (memcmp(&A, &q->addr2, sizeof(struct IN_ADDR)) <= 0)
> > + if ((memcmp(&A, &q->addr1, sizeof(struct IN_ADDR)) >= 0) &&
> > + (memcmp(&A, &q->addr2, sizeof(struct IN_ADDR)) <= 0))
> > return 0; /* valid */
> > else
> > return -1; /* outside of range, 'less than' */
>
> Looks like a bug in the ipv6 code.. fixed.
>
> > BTW: a warning was also displayed here:
> > acl.c:1723: warning: enumeration value `ACL_SRC_ASN' not handled in
> > switch
> > acl.c:1723: warning: enumeration value `ACL_DST_ASN' not handled in
> > switch
>
> This is fixed in the more current Squid code I think, and will thus be
> fixed in the ipv6 branch once someone cares to maintain it.
>
> > 3) Ooops:
> > client_side.c: In function `parseHttpRequest':
> > client_side.c:2652: structure has no member named `sin_addr'
> > client_side.c:2654: structure has no member named `sin_port'
> > client_side.c:2654: structure has no member named `sin_port'
> > client_side.c:2654: structure has no member named `sin_port'
> > client_side.c:2654: structure has no member named `sin_port'
> > client_side.c:2654: warning: `__v' might be used uninitialized in
> > this function
> > make[2]: *** [client_side.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/squid/squid-ipv6/src'
> > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/squid/squid-ipv6/src'
> > make: *** [all] Error 1
>
> Hmm.. appears the --enable-linux-netfilter code is not ipv6 adoped yet.
>
> > BTW: because of RHL 7.2 is now good IPv6 enabled would be imho a big
> > step further on if a working IPv6 squid is available, too.
> > Reason: browsers like Mozilla or Konqueror cannot be setup (by
> > configuration) to use for IPv4 a proxy, but not for IPv6). So if for
> > IPv4 a proxy is required, it will be also used for IPv6 requests -
> > but without success.
>
> I fully agree.
>
> The browser when using a proxy should not diverse between IPv4 and IPv6.
> It is the proxy's job to figure out how to reach the requested service.
>
> Regards
> Henrik Nordström
> Squid Hacker
Received on Thu Oct 25 2001 - 12:50:03 MDT