Re: PF_INET6 on non-ipv6 kernels

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Horacio_J=2E_Pe=F1a?= (horape@tinuviel.compendium.com.ar)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:51:14 -0300


¡Hola!

> > This would be reasonable if some IPv6 API really existed. 8)
> It does exist, and is published as RFC 2133.
The IPv6 people considers RFC 2133 obsolete.

> > 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.
Ok, write your code to be used only in ipv6/ipv4. When we move to ipv7 you'll
have to recode it... The ones coding protocol-independant code will be laughing
at you.

HoraPe

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