Re: bind/sctp_bindx API - binding to all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

From: Peter Lei (peterlei) <peterlei@cisco.com>
Date: Tue Feb 08 2005 - 11:31:12 EST

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) ('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) There are IPv6 socket options and kernel sysctl's (in BSD and MacOS X)
that allow you to turn off allowing mapped-v4 addresses from being
bound to or used on a PF_INET6 socket, so the behavior below isn't
always true.

regards,
--peter

David Lehmann wrote:
> Michael Tuexen wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> my understanding is that
>> if you specify the IPv4 wildcard address you get only IPv4 addresses
>> if you specify the IPv6 wildcard address you get IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
>
>
> Thanks. Maybe the spec should explicitly state this.
>
Received on Tue Feb 8 11:33:00 2005