SA2 IPv6 Follow Up Wiki pages.

• Document describing IPv6 compliant programming in C/C++ Java Python and Perl. This document also exposes the limits of each language regarding IPv6 compliance. A sample client and server is provided in each language, which should be a good starting point for programming IPv6 compliant applications.
• Introduction_to_IPv6_programming_C_Java_PHP_perl.pdf: Rome - IPv6 Programming tutorial slides - R.Nucara

Note: The IPv6 Compliance Testing part (see below) contains information about some networking libraries which have been tested about IPv6 compliance. Using an IPv6 compliant networking library is an easy way of programming IPv6 compliant applications.

IPv6 Compliance tests of glite external dependencies

Global Status is on a dedicated page, click here.

Specific in-depth tests have been done for the following packages:

• GlobusGridFTP
• AXISAndAXIS2Java
• AXIS2C
• BoostASIO
• gSOAP
• PythonZSI
• PerlSOAPLite

IPv6 Testbed

• Test Bed Architecture and node list: EGEESA2IPv6Testbed

IPv6 CARE tool

IPv6 CARE, "IPv6 Compliant Automatic Runtime Environment", is a Linux tool able to patch ipv6-agnostic programs on-the-fly ('patch' mode). It can also generate a diagnosis about the IPv6 compliance of an application ('check' mode).

Or download and try it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipv6-care.

The Static Code Checker

This tool is also able to assess IPv6 compliance of programs, by analysing the source code. See this package.
This tool was integrated into the ETICS repository, in order to check all the gLite packages, and get what we call the "IPv6 metric".

IPv6 Testing methodology document and links

• How to test IPv6 compliance of a socket server
• IPv6 and gLite roadmap: Slides shown at the JRA-1 All Hands meeting at CERN 20071024
• IPv6 testbed design and gLite testing methodology
• Other useful links related to testing:
  • ETICS Web Application interface
  • CERN ETICS Metronome Pool results overview
  • CERN ETICS Metronome Pre-Production Pool results overview
  • IPv6 gLite CVS repository

randomize_getaddrinfo

The IPv6 compliant name resolution function getaddrinfo() tries to sort the addresses (IPv6 and IPv4). At CERN a DNS load balancing solution is set up for a set of servers. When the IPv6-enabled gLite code was set up, the DNS load balancing stopped working because of this feature of getaddrinfo(). In order to solve this problem, SA2 implemented an LD-PRELOAD-able library which randomizes the output of getaddrinfo() on the operating system where it is installed: randomize_getaddrinfo-1.0-src.tar.gz.

-- EtienneDUBLE - 23-Feb-2010

The EGEE SA2 IPv6 team organized several dissemination events:

• December 15, 2009 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland: JRA1/SA3 All-Hands Meeting
  • 1 Presentation about the work achieved by the team around IPv6
• September 22, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain: EGEE'09 Conference
  • 1 Presentation about IPv6 and gLite
• March 26 and 27, 2009 in Rome, Italy: SA2 All Hands Meeting.
  • 1 Presentation about IPv6
• March 2 to 6, 2009 in Catania, Italy: EGEE User Forum / OGF. See IPv6DemoOGF.
  • 1 Session about IPv6
  • 1 Booth with 2 posters (see https://edms.cern.ch/document/993325 and https://edms.cern.ch/document/993327) and 1 Demo script showing gLite IPv6 status (there is a video of it at http://gridtalk-project.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-grid-computing-could-work-with-ipv6.html)
• Nov. 6, 2008 in Prague, Czech republic: JRA1/SA3 joint all-hands meeting. See EGEESA2IPv6JRA1SA3Tutorial. Two sessions:
  • 1 Session about IPv6 Testing
  • 1 Session about IPv6 Programming
• Jan. 16, 2008 in Rome, Italy: First IPv6 tutorial for JRA-1 gLite developers: EGEESA2IPv6JRA1Tutorial
• E/E/E Meetings
  • First joint EGEE/EuChinaGRID/ETICS meeting on IPv6 - GARR, Rome, Feb 19-20, 2007
  • Second joint E/E/E meeting on IPv6 - CC IN2P3, Lyon - April 17, 2007
  • Third joint E/E/E meeting on IPv6 - CERN, Geneva, July 25, 2007
  • IPv6 section of the EGEE 07 conference, Budapest, October 1st, 2007
  • Fourth joint E/E/E meeting on IPv6 - CERN, Geneva, February 19, 2008

• IPv6FAQ
• The 6diss project e-learning pages on IPv6
• The 6net project
• JOIN IPv6 facts and figures
• Potaroo Report on IPv4 addressing exhaustion

IPv6 Follow Up list: IPv6 group ML IPv6 Follow Up Wiki: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EGEE/IPv6FollowUp IPv6 Follow Up Web: http://egee-sa2.web.cern.ch/egee-sa2/IPV6.html IPv6 Follow Up EGEE III involved people: Mario Reale (mario.reale at dir.garr.it), Xavier Jeannin (xavier.jeannin at urec.cnrs.fr), Etienne Duble (etienne.duble at urec.cnrs.fr) ETICS collaboration: Marian Zurek, Alberto Di Meglio Past collaborations: Gabriella Paolini, Paola Celio, Federico Bitelli,Rino Nucara (EUCHINAGRID)

• Third E/E/E meeting at CERN( July 25,2007)
  

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