| To: | davem@xxxxxxxxxx (David S. Miller) |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Allow Both IPv6 and IPv4 Sockets on the Same |
| From: | kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| Date: | Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:06:48 +0400 (MSD) |
| Cc: | netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <20021003.012904.75241727.davem@xxxxxxxxxx> from "David S. Miller" at Oct 3, 2 12:45:01 pm |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
Hello! > For example, this IPV6_V6ONLY socket option is flawed. What we > really need is a generic socket option which says "my family only" > > There is nothing ipv6 specific about such a socket attribute. > > So please, create instead "SO_ONEFAMILY" or similar generic > socket option. No, really! __Sharing__ of port space between IPv4 and IPv6 was mad idea. It cannot generalized to other protocol families. So, IPV6_V6ONLY is really unique for IPv6. Well, actually, it could be negated: be default and the option would be called IPV6_SHARE_THIS_PORT_TO_IPV4. Alexey |
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