Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PF_INET6 on non-ipv6 kernels | From | Magnus Ahltorp <> | Date | 30 Mar 1999 06:31:24 +0200 |
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> I am requesting that when IPv6 is not compiled in, the call still > succeed, returning a socket which only handles sin6_addr's in the > "IPv4-mapped IPv6 address" format defined in section 2.4.4 of RFC 1884. > (It should also accept as input the Unspecified Address and the Loopback > Address.)
I have not seen any consensus on any IPv6 mailing lists for this behaviour, and not any reports on how other OS APIs work. IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses are a feature of the IPv6 API. If you don't enable the IPv6 API, you will not be able to use its features.
A much more valid request is to enable IPv6 by default in the kernel. I really hope that the common Linux distributions will distribute their default kernel with IPv6 enabled. AIX is already there, among others.
/Magnus
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