RPC IPv6 breaks binary compatibility

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Tue Jan 25 22:59:00 GMT 2000


Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:

> Because a RPC server needs to know from which client the request come
> (for access controlling) and which verifier the client 
> uses (AUTH_SYS/AUTH_DES) or the server need special information
> about the client from the verifier field like the UID on the
> remove host ?

This still eaves the question unanswered: how shall such a tight
coupling to IPv4 ever work in a IPv6 environment?

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