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Re: socat with IP6 support?
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 06:01:54 -0400
- Subject: Re: socat with IP6 support?
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> > To copy file1 to file2 on the localhost, run:
> >
> > socat tcp6-listen:7777 file2
> >
> > to set up a listener, and:
> >
> > socat tcp6:[::1]:7777 file1
> >
> > to connect to the listener and transfer the file.
> >
> > If you have two hosts, you could try the same, running the first command
> > on the server, and the second command substituting the ipv6 address of
> > the server in place of ::1.
>
> Testing this on 64 bit, with socat 1.7.2.4, and a Linux peer in both
> directions works fine.
>
> Do you need a test of the 2.0 test version as well?
Yes please, since 2.0 is where I had to apply a patch to remove the use
of IPV6_DSTOPTS. I do have an ipv6 host here that I tested it on, but
it would be good to have another test.
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