Re: PF_INET6 on non-ipv6 kernels

John Myers (jgmyers@netscape.com)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:01:19 -0800


kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> This would be reasonable if some IPv6 API really existed. 8)

It does exist, and is published as RFC 2133.

> It must work equally over TCP/IP, TCP/IPv6,
> ISO stack or some another connection-oriented protocol.

No it does not. In order to interoperate, applications need only work
with internet standard protocols. ISO stacks and non-standard transport
layer protocols are irrelevant.

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