> >>>>> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:58:02 -0600 (CST), > >>>>> Lilian Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Thanks for the quick replies. I have one more question - this time about > > the setsockopt portion for TCP in 2292bis. > > > If an application does a setsockopt IPV6_PKTINFO on a TCP socket, is the > > setting of the source address restricted only to an unconnected socket? > > What should the behavior be once a connection is established? Since we > > cannot change the local IPv6 address during a connection, I am guessing > > return an error of some sort. > > Good point. Actually, I was thinking about the issue, too, and I'm > going to clarify this so that issuing IPV6_PKTINFO setsockopt on a TCP > socket will fail.
Being able to use IPV6_PKTOPTIONS for TCP to e.g. set the outbound interface when using a global address seems consistent with the intent of the option and the way it is used with UDP. Erik -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
