Subject: RE: IPv4-mapped IPv6 IP bind()ing problems...
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: icmps <icmp@icmps.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/06/2003 21:05:14
Hrm... it wouldn't happen to be the net.inet6.ip6.v6only sysctl would
it? Because I've tried messing with it, too heh


-----Original Message-----
From: tech-net-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:tech-net-owner@netbsd.org] On
Behalf Of Martin Husemann
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:54 PM
To: icmps
Cc: tech-net@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: IPv4-mapped IPv6 IP bind()ing problems...

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:42:20PM -0500, icmps wrote:

> is this the source of my problems? I'm just curious as to why I cannot
> bind a IPv4-mapped IPv6 IP since it works fine on other OSes... am I
> doing something wrong?

"This behaviour is by design"

There is a sysctl which you can use to get the old behaviour back
(sorry,
can't remember the name)

> By the way, for the connect() thing above, I figured it was a bug and
> filed PR kern/20559 - if this is invalid, feel free to close it.

I think they are valid.

Martin