Re: [tcpdump] About struct in_addr / struct in6_addr

[Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:11:01 -0700
Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>
wrote:

> On Jul 17, 2022, at 3:39 PM, Bill Fenner <fenner () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > IMO it is safe to drop support for OSes lacking native IPv6
> > support.  
>
> Yeah.  Back when IPv6 support was added to tcpdump, it was an
> experimental new technology and the configure script had to figure
> out which of several add-on IPv6 packages you had installed.  Now a
> significant amount of Wikipedia vandalism comes from IPv6 addresses
> rather than IPv4 addresses. :-)

OS IPv6 support would be a very reasonable requirement for tcpdump 5.

-- 
    Denis Ovsienko
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