Doug Evans, le lun. 01 mars 2021 08:23:03 -0800, a ecrit:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 1:40 PM Samuel Thibault <[1]samuel.thiba...@gnu.org>
> wrote:
> 
>     [...]
>     > Note that one issue I am leaving for later (i.e., I don't want to drag
>     this
>     > patch series out to include it), is whether and how to support
>     ipv4-host->
>     > ipv6-guest forwarding and vice versa. Can libslirp support this?
> 
>     That would be feasible yes: since the data flow is completely rebuilt
>     between the host and the guest, there is no remnant of the IP version.
>     It was simpler to have e.g. udp_listen and udp6_listen separate to keep
>     uint32_t / in6_addr parameters, but there is no strict reason for this:
>     the haddr is only passed to the bind() call, and the laddr is only
>     recorded in the so. Put another way, a refactoring patch could be to
>     just hand udp_listen two sockaddrs, and it will just work fine. We'd
>     then introduce a slirp_add_hostfwd that takes two sockaddr instead of
>     host/port.
> 
> 
> 
> I guess I'm not familiar enough with this code.
> Help me understand how passing two addresses to udp_listen is simpler.
> That feels confusing from an API viewpoint.

? udp_listen already takes two addresses + two ports. I just mean
replacing that with two sockaddr, which contains both, but also contains
the address family. I submitted this to 

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp/-/merge_requests/74

Samuel

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