diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
index 713fec66913..301631cac7f 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-Verison 1.48
+Version 1.49
+------------
+IPv6 support.  Enable ipv6 addresses to be passed on mount (put the ipv6
+address after the "ip=" mount option, at least until mount.cifs is fixed to
+handle DNS host to ipv6 name translation).
+
+Version 1.48
 ------------
 Fix mtime bouncing around from local idea of last write times to remote time.
 Fix hang (in i_size_read) when simultaneous size update of same remote file
diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index 9e41f8ea5fb..c139fbd24be 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -1790,11 +1790,12 @@ cifs_mount(struct super_block *sb, struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb,
 		existingCifsSes = cifs_find_tcp_session(&sin_server.sin_addr,
 			NULL /* no ipv6 addr */,
 			volume_info.username, &srvTcp);
-	else if(address_type == AF_INET6)
+	else if(address_type == AF_INET6) {
+		cFYI(1,("looking for ipv6 address"));
 		existingCifsSes = cifs_find_tcp_session(NULL /* no ipv4 addr */,
 			&sin_server6.sin6_addr,
 			volume_info.username, &srvTcp);
-	else {
+	} else {
 		kfree(volume_info.UNC);
 		kfree(volume_info.password);
 		kfree(volume_info.prepath);
@@ -1810,12 +1811,18 @@ cifs_mount(struct super_block *sb, struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb,
 			sin_server.sin_port = htons(volume_info.port);
 		else
 			sin_server.sin_port = 0;
-		rc = ipv4_connect(&sin_server,&csocket,
+		if (address_type == AF_INET6) {
+			cFYI(1,("attempting ipv6 connect"));
+			/* BB should we allow ipv6 on port 139? */
+			/* other OS never observed in Wild doing 139 with v6 */
+			rc = ipv6_connect(&sin_server6,&csocket);
+		} else 
+			rc = ipv4_connect(&sin_server,&csocket,
 				  volume_info.source_rfc1001_name,
 				  volume_info.target_rfc1001_name);
 		if (rc < 0) {
 			cERROR(1,
-			       ("Error connecting to IPv4 socket. Aborting operation"));
+			       ("Error connecting to IPv4 socket. Aborting operation"));			       
 			if(csocket != NULL)
 				sock_release(csocket);
 			kfree(volume_info.UNC);
diff --git a/fs/cifs/netmisc.c b/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
index 992e80edc72..53e304d5954 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <asm/div64.h>
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
+#include <linux/inet.h>
+#endif
 #include "cifsfs.h"
 #include "cifspdu.h"
 #include "cifsglob.h"
@@ -129,11 +132,27 @@ static const struct smb_to_posix_error mapping_table_ERRHRD[] = {
 /* Convert string containing dotted ip address to binary form */
 /* returns 0 if invalid address */
 
-/* BB add address family, change rc to status flag and return union or for ipv6 */
-/*  will need parent to call something like inet_pton to convert ipv6 address  BB */
 int
 cifs_inet_pton(int address_family, char *cp,void *dst)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	/* calculate length by finding first slash or NULL */
+	/* BB Should we convert '/' slash to '\' here since it seems already done
+	   before this */
+	if( address_family == AF_INET ){
+		ret = in4_pton(cp, -1 /* len */, dst , '\\', NULL);	
+	} else if( address_family == AF_INET6 ){
+		ret = in6_pton(cp, -1 /* len */, dst , '\\', NULL);
+	}
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG2
+	cFYI(1,("address conversion returned %d for %s", ret, cp));
+#endif
+	if (ret > 0)
+		ret = 1;
+	return ret;
+#else
 	int value;
 	int digit;
 	int i;
@@ -192,6 +211,7 @@ cifs_inet_pton(int address_family, char *cp,void *dst)
 
 	*((__be32 *)dst) = *((__be32 *) bytes) | htonl(value);
 	return 1; /* success */
+#endif /* EXPERIMENTAL */	
 }
 
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