Re: IPv6 support

2005-03-02 Thread Xuân Baldauf
Henrik Nordstrom wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Xuân Baldauf wrote: Also, it would be nice if Henrik could start with some comments he said to have on these first IPv6 steps. :-) I am still here ;-) The main comment is that we should try to cut down on the number of #ifdefs. I prefer

Re: IPv6 support

2005-03-02 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Xuân Baldauf wrote: The #if ENABLE_IPV6 conditions are to provide a more smooth transition to enabled IPv6 support. The idea is: When ENABLE_IPV6==0, then everything is as before. But when ENABLE_IPV6==1, every variable and every struct which refers IPv4

Re: IPv6 support

2005-03-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
I know this may not be completely relevant to the ipv6 discussion, but you buy a lot of flexibility if you abstract out the socket API /usefully/. You're then able to do the following: * easily deal with the different crack unices have when twiddling socket stuff (eg, via ioctls, grabbing the