Re: RFC 2553 bind semantics harms the way to AF independence

[horape]

�Hola!

> >>    for example: on linux system, if you would like to turn IPV6_V6ONLY
> >>    option on, you can only accept IPv6 traffic with getaddrinfo(3) loop.
> >If that changes were done, turning IPV6_V6ONLY on would not be frequently d=
> >one.

>       if you want to see IPv4 traffic on AF_INET socket (so that we don't
>       get confused by bogus source address, and generating bogus traffic
>       when responding) you will want to do IPV6_V6ONLY.

Yes, maybe a flag telling that the old behaviour should be used would be need
to be added too.

> itojun

                                        HoraPe
---
Horacio J. Pe�a
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List
IPng Home Page:                      http://playground.sun.com/ipng
FTP archive:                      ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng
Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------------