Re: Should we enable IPv6 support by default?

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

Carter Bullard wrote:
> 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?

add_addr_to_iflist() appears to work with IPv6 addresses on my OS X 
10.4.11 machine, as pcap_findalldevs() finds the IPv6 addresses for my 
loopback adapter.  It also appears to work on my Ubuntu 7.10 virtual 
machine; on what platforms does it fail?

pcap_lookupnet() is an API that is inherently IPv4-based (it's defined 
to take two pointers to 32-bit integers as arguments through which it 
returns the network and mask information); applications that need IPv6 
information should fetch it themselves with, for example, 
pcap_findalldevs().
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