IPv6 help (Re: inetutils, r* commands)

[Antonio Querubin]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>> Now, on the loopback connection (obv. on the Vista computer), the
>> incoming client packet says "hi, I'm ::ffff::127.0.0.1":
>
> More hmm.  But that actually means it's using an AF_INET6 socket for an
> IPv4 addresses.  If the target is V4 anyway, why?  V4 routing through a
> V6-only network is job of the routers.

An INET6 socket should always use mapped addresses to represent IPv4 
connections by design.

Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp:  tony@lava.net

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