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

[Mauro Tortonesi]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Francis Dupont wrote:

> => you can use it with the V6ONLY stuff.

yes, but on rfc2553-compliant system you cannot have both an AF_INET
and an AF_INET6 socket listening on the same port.

> => this is the standard way but with the V6ONLY way you can use the
> single socket (my favorite) or the socket per IP version (Itojun's
> favorite). The user shall choice his own favorite or the one which
> matches the application constraints.

the user can't choose anything! if he wants to listen both ipv4 and ipv6
traffic, he has to use an AF_INET6 socket with V6ONLY turned off.
no other choice.

-- 
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