IPv6 back up

A few weeks ago, I removed folk from my network, because what it had been doing was now mostly migrated to western, added an extra network card to the latter box, and configured it as gateway to my network. It mostly works (except when there's a huge amount of mail, which seems to happen more than it used to, now), but I had forgotten one detail: IPv6 routing hadn't been migrated yet. Fixed that, now.

While reading the radvd.conf(5) manpage, however, I remembered something interesting: 'Mobile IPv6 extensions'. This has 'something' to do with laptops, and has intrigued me ever since I first heard about it, but I have no clue what it's supposed to do, or how it's supposed to work

Searching the RFC Index doesn't reveal anything. Most likely because it's not there yet. Googling does reveal an index of draft documents by some IETF working group related to that subject, but the link to the document about "Mobility Support in IPv6" is dead. It also turns up some site by Lancaster University (whatever that is), but I get a connection timeout when trying to look at that site. And since they talk about Microsoft IPv6 stacks, I don't think it'll be of much help.

Grunt. And I don't even know whether it'll be able to do what I want it to do.

Update: I got an email from Rui Tiago Matos, stating that the mobile IPv6 stuff for Linux is over at Mobile-IPv6.org. Nice. That site also included a working link to the current RFC draft. Reading that thing now, let's see what it can do.

Rui also told me about the Daidalos project, which seems to be a government-sponsored project, with an interesting preset:

The Daidalos vision is to seamlessly integrate heterogeneous network technologies that allow network operators and service providers to offer new and profitable services, giving users access to a wide range of personalised voice, data, and multimedia services.

Cool.