about IPv6

Ian Piumarta piumarta at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 23:58:24 UTC 2007


On Aug 14, 2007, at 12:12 AM, Michael Rueger wrote:

> IIRC Ian had planned to officially release and announce the plugin  
> once it is stable so other platform maintainers could catch up. Ian?

Harvest away: the attached adds the necessary stuff to SocketPlugin.   
The result should be completely backward compatible.

The platform code for Unix is in SVN.  For MacOS I guess John will  
just copy and paste as usual (and the result should work: I have  
tested the Unix code under Darwin).

To test after adding platform support code you'll need to grab at  
least SocketAddress, SocketAddressInformation (assuming Mike didn't  
change the names) and the new primitive methods in Socket from the  
OLPC image.  (If anyone wants the lightweight versions of these that  
I originally sent to Mike, which are sufficient to test basic TCP and  
UDP over IP6 provided your machine's IP stack supports v6, then just  
let me know.)

There might still be a problem with some illegal arguments not being  
caught.  If/when this stuff looks like moving into the mainstream  
I'll happily investigate further and harden the checks.

(I thought about x-posting to vm-dev but all the relevant people read  
this list anyway.)

Cheers,
Ian

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