The advanced API does not address this yet....is there any way at all to currently join an IPv4 multicast group on an AF_INET6 socket? Or do applications need to open a separate AF_INET socket to join v4 groups?
Thanks, Lilian On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Antonio Querubin wrote: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Lilian Fernandes wrote: > > > I have a question about the IPV6_JOIN_GROUP socket option from > > rfc2553bis-05. Is it intended that the user be able to use this socket > > option to join IPv4 multicast groups as well? The user could do this by > > specifying an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address for the IPv4 multicast address. > > Unfortunately the RFCs don't specifically define an IPv4-mapped IPv6 > equivalent for IPv4 multicast addresses. That section of the IPv6 address > architecture RFC only pertains to mapping IPv4 unicast addresses. > > A suggestion was made last year to address this difference in behaviour at > the basic sockets API level since the address architecture was pretty much > fixed already. But that suggestion came a little too late and now it's > been suggested that it be addressed instead in the advanced sockets API. > > _____________________________________________________________________ Lilian Fernandes AIX TCP/IP Development - IBM Austin Tel: 512-838-7966 Fax: 512-838-3509 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
