Add IPV6 support.  I would not want Limetech to invest a lot of time in this if it is not ready for prime time.  I know some router manufacturers (Netgear, Linksys) and DD-WRT are struggling on their newer router firmware with IPV6 so it may not be ready on Linux.  The world is moving to it and we should be ready.  IPV6 adds some inherent advantages over IPV4 on a LAN.  Inherent encryption, does not require NAT translation, etc.

I would suggest that if it is added it is done so as "unsupported" until such time as the internet plays catch up. Few people understand it yet and its a support burden we dont need.

 

But its a good idea to have it for the fearless and geeks among us.

Not saying this isn't important, but definitely low on the priority stack right now. 

Not saying this isn't important, but definitely low on the priority stack right now.

 

Agreed.  Keep in mind though that some places in the world are out of IPV4 addresses and will have to go to strictly IPV6 on the Internet.  I'm not sure what that means for LAN networks that will be dual stack for a while.

I suspect for years people will run ipv4 internally and ipv6 externally (as even in my home some devices are not ipv6 capable).

 

However jonp another way to look at this is if we add it unsupported this now we take a step towards where we have no choice but to go and by doing it early stretch the effort over a longer period with the community helping as much as possible.

 

Personally I would add it the v6 beta cycle

 

 

I suspect for years people will run ipv4 internally and ipv6 externally (as even in my home some devices are not ipv6 capable).

 

However jonp another way to look at this is if we add it unsupported this now we take a step towards where we have no choice but to go and by doing it early stretch the effort over a longer period with the community helping as much as possible.

 

Personally I would add it the v6 beta cycle

 

I think this is a good idea.  Rather than wait for it to become a fire, we could start work on it now.  I have mostly IPV6 devices on my network and I am moving to IPV6 when and where I can.

And TBH the people that want it now are exactly e kind of people we want working on testing and reporting against it. i.e. development support not user support

I am also one that would like IPv6 support.

 

I run IPv6 support through HE.net tunnelbroker.

 

Truthfully I don't care too much at this point if the core unRaid services support IPv6, however the additional things I use my unRAID server for I would like IPv6 for, like Plex.

 

If the base OS isn't configured for IPv6 nothing else has a chance to work...

 

I like the idea of IPv6  being an unsupported feature.

 

 

If the base OS isn't configured for IPv6 nothing else has a chance to work...

 

Is this true for Docker containers?  (That linux kernel needs IPv6 support built in?)

If the base OS isn't configured for IPv6 nothing else has a chance to work...

 

Is this true for Docker containers?  (That linux kernel needs IPv6 support built in?)

 

It's not true for VMs.  I have a Xen Debian Owncloud VM that has IPV6.  I don't know why Dockers would need the unRAID kernel to have IPV6 support.