Hi Guillem, > I'd like to know if my current approach is acceptable for > upstreaming
In my opinion, yes, it is. > The solution I've implemented is to make tcp and udp IPv4 only, which > is what it should be (for now, for compatibility reasons), otherwise > this breaks too many programs expectations. Yes, it is reasonable. Thanks for working on this. > Then I changed tcp6 and udp6 to be v4mapped (with the assumption that > any code prepared to handle IPv6 sockets should be able to handle dual > stack ones), and added tcp6only and udp6only to be IPv6 only connections. > This mimics the behaviour of other inetd implementations with IPv6 > support, namely Solaris inetd. But you might prefer a different behaviour, > for example the FreeBSD one of making tcp6/udp6 IPv6 only and adding > tcp46/udp46 for IPv4 mapped addresses. I believe you've made the right choice: the `*6only' names are better. Could you also update inetutils.texi? Regards, Sergey
