Re: vic of mash on IPv6

[David PATE <pate@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

Lloyd Lim wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David PATE wrote:
> >
> >I rewrote vic include in Mash-5.0b1 to run on a FreeBSD-2.2.8 host with
> >kame (www.kame.net) IPv6 stack.
> >If someone is interested by it, ask me.
> 
> Welcome!
> 
> I did a quick search on IPv6, but didn't learn anything about the
> programming side.  Maybe you can enlighten us.

You can go to :
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ipngwg-charter.html (Socket API)
or
www.kame.net

This a good start.

> 
> >From an application programming point of view, what are the differences
> between IPv6 and IPv4?  Is an IPv6-enabled application also compatible
> with IPv4?

You have to manage IPv6 addresses. The socket calls are different, but
the semantic is the same. 
The compatibility depends of the socket calls you choose.

> 
> If the changes are relatively simple and are backward-compatible, then
> I'd invite you to help us make Mash work with IPv6.  If you know of any
> FAQs we should read, let us know.

The changes are definitely not trivial. You can look at the new code I
wrote.

> 
> Thanks,
> Lloyd

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