[Nut-upsdev] Re: [nut-commits] svn commit r714 - in trunk: .

[Henning Brauer]

* Peter Selinger <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca> [2007-01-09 01:01]:
> Henning, you seem to know more about IPv6 than any of us.

somewhat freightening eh ;(

> Would you
> like to audit and test the code? Currently I don't think any of the
> other developers have the ability to even test IPv6 code; we applied
> the patch in good faith. It would be great if you could find and fix
> any glitches.

I cannot test it, I don't have any v6 networks (on purpose).
I can glance over the code if I find the time.

I did write OpenNTPD with v6 support from the beginning on, and 
OpenBGPD got it later (since there v6 changes way more than a few 
socket things), and I am deeply involved with our (OpenBSD) network 
stack and packet filter, so I naturally had to deal with the v6 stuff. 
While some of the APIs that we got with v6, like getnameinfo and 
getaddrinfo (which, in turn, are not really related to v6, except that 
they originated there) are a real improvement over the traditional 
interfaces, I am not exactly a fan of IPv6 - there's a gigantic stack of 
issues with it, and some are fundamental problems.

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