[Bug 164] X-forwarding when connecting to an IPv6-enabled host doesn't work.

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Tue Oct 29 06:54:18 EST 2002


Hi,

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:03:26PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> In any case, I'd like to see demonstrated failures.
> 
> SSH over IPv6 + X-forwarding works just fine for me...

But in that case, it's still likely that X11 would actually speak IPv4
on both ends - v4 over v6 and vice versa, and even "client via v6
into ssh, sshd via v4 to server" works fine, as the forwarded L3/L4 
protocols are completely decoupled from the ssh session.

gert
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