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Subject: Re: IPPROTO_DIVERT and PF_INET6
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JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:

> 
> This should provide a direct answer to you question of "why"?  But I
> suspect the underlying question is why divert sockets aren't supported
> for IPv6.  I don't know why.

because no=one has done it and because divert sockaddrs are ipv4 sockaddrs

you would have to make a new divert6 protocol.
That's not impossible, but no-one has done it.

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