Re: Should we enable IPv6 support by default?

[Carter Bullard <carter () qosient com>]

Are you going to make it so that the routines in inet.c, such as  
add_addr_to_iflist()
and pcap_lookupnet() can work with IPv6 addresses?

Carter

On Feb 6, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:09:33AM -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> > > What is the reason for having optional IPv6 in the first place  
> > > (besides
> > > OSes that don't provide all necessary header files)?  Memory  
> > > savings?
> >
> > ISTR there were some "funnies" on some OSes where IPv6 was "pre- 
> > enabled"
> > but not actually enabled unless something else was added.
>
> tcpdump is not actually *doing* any IPv6.  All it does is "read  
> packets,
> print their contents".  Which is completely independent of the  
> question
> "will the operating system provide IPv6 support?".
>
> It's not like tcpdump is trying to actually *use* IPv6.
>
> (I can do tcpdump to look at "spanning tree" packets.  Or Cisco  
> CDP.  Neither
> is supported in my operating system...)
>
> gert
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