Re: PF_INET6 on non-ipv6 kernels

John Myers (jgmyers@netscape.com)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:30:06 -0800


Horacio J. Peņa wrote:
> The IPv6 people considers RFC 2133 obsolete.

Care to provide a reference to back your claim? I cannot find any
relevant internet drafts, other than
draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-lookups-03.txt which is not a kernel issue.

> Ok, write your code to be used only in ipv6/ipv4. When we move to ipv7 you'll
> have to recode it... The ones coding protocol-independant code will be laughing
> at you.

Name one "protocol independent" networking program written before IPv6
which required no modification to work over IPv6.

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