Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:10:09 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPPROTO_DIVERT and PF_INET6 Message-ID: <20080505231009.GX44028@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <481F6AE1.5020408@elischer.org> References: <20080503100043.GA68835@k7.mavetju> <m2od7k7e5z.wl%Jinmei_Tatuya@isc.org> <481F6AE1.5020408@elischer.org>
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On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:15:29PM -0700, Julian Elischer 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. I've been looking at it, with hints from rwatson@ and bms@, but the problem right now lays in the way you can do dynamic protocol registrations with IPv4 but not yet with IPv6. Every time when I get one step further I end up with a new problem :-( Let's call it a learning excercise! Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/
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