Re: IPv4 mapped addresses issue

[Colm MacCarthaigh <colm at stdlib.net>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:34:58AM +0200, Stig Venaas wrote:
> I second that. I would hope that also Linux allows you to bind both
> AF_INET6 and AF_INET when using IPV6_V6ONLY socket option; I think that
> would be reasonable and logical behaviour. I don't know if that is the
> case though.

It is the case these days (since 2.4.40), but many distributions do not
have IPV6_V6ONLY defined in their copy of linux/in6.h . It needs to be
defined to 26 for it to work. Their is also the NET_IPV6_BINDV6ONLY
(/proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only) sysctl to define default system
behaviour.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net

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