Re: Should we enable IPv6 support by default?

[Carter Bullard <carter () qosient com>]

I think the point is that you shouldn't have routines that are  
'inherently'
limited to IPv4 addresses, if you support IPv6.

Tcpdump is still using pcap_lookupnet().


On Feb 6, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> 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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