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ipv6calc will do some format changes and calculations for you

(P) & (C) 2001-2008 by Peter Bieringer <pb (at) bieringer.de>
                   published under GNU GPLv2

For suggestions and bug report please contact author

More help is available using 'ipv6calc -?'


Intention:
* This utility can be used by the IPv6 enabled initscripts for better duplicate
address detection on setup of IPv6 addresses

* Also migrate "ip6_int" of Keith Owens <[email protected]> into this utility

Known bugs:
* ipv6calc is sure not the securest C program around the world


Where to get:
 Homepage:
  http://www.deepspace6.net/projects/ipv6calc.html

 Latest version of sources:
  ftp://ftp.bieringer.de/pub/linux/IPv6/ipv6calc/

 CVS access:
  http://www.deepspace6.net/sections/cvs.html
  http://cvs.deepspace6.net/view/ipv6calc/

 Available formats:
  tar.gz
  spec-file is included, so you can build an RPM from source tarball using rpm -ta ipv6calc-version.tar.gz

 Ready to use packages for several operating systems:
  Linux:
   Fedora:
    Core 6: developing platform, so use given hint above to create a RPM
    since 7: package is included
   Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
    RHEL3: build from source package should work but not tested
    RHEL4: build from source package tested, working
    since RHEL5: package is included
   Mandrake:
    similar to Red Hat, rebuild should work, too
   Debian:
    maintained package at http://packages.debian.org/ipv6calc
   Pardus Linux:
    maintained package at http://members.comu.edu.tr/nyucel/pisi/ipv6calc/
   Ubuntu:
    maintained package at http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/net/ipv6calc
     or http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=ipv6calc

  BSD:
   NetBSD:
    http://www.netbsd.org/packages/net/ipv6calc/
   FreeBSD:
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/ipv6calc/ (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=34441)
    http://www.freshports.org/net-mgmt/ipv6calc/
   OpenBSD:
    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/net/ipv6calc/

Mailing lists:
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  Reason: sending announcements of new versions
  Traffic: very low
  Postings: only moderators are allowed to post, others are rejected automatically
  Subscription: http://lists.deepspace6.net/listinfo/ipv6calc-announce

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  Traffic: medium
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$Id: README,v 1.15 2008/11/19 19:03:29 peter Exp $