Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > (Added netdev cc)
> >
> > Felix von Leitner <felix-linuxkernel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Now about IPv6: npush and npoll are two applications I wrote. npush
> > > sends multicast announcements and opens a TCP socket. npoll receives
> > > the multicast announcement and connects to the source IP/port/scope_id
> > > of the announcement. If both are run on the same machine, npoll sees
> > > the link local address of eth0 as source IP, and the interface number of
> > > eth0 as scope_id. So far so good. Trying to connect() however hangs.
> > > Since this has been broken in different ways for as long as I can
> > > remember in Linux, and I keep complaining about it every half a year or
> > > so. Can't someone fix this once and for all? IPv4 checks whether we
> > > are connecting to our own address and reroutes through loopback, why
> > > can't IPv6?
>
> afaik, this problem is still open. If you have time, please provide
> additional info for the net developers. Maybe the source to npoll anbd
> npush?
Grab the ncp package from http://www.fefe.de/ncp/, or more specifically
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/network/ncp/ncp-1.2.3.tar.bz2.
It's a very useful and handy tool for pushing around data within
a LAN of a small workgroup, one guy does "npush foo" and yells
at the intended recepient "do npoll". The first one to do
it wins and gets foo ;-)
Johannes
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