IPV6_V6ONLY

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:09:30PM +0200, Aris Adamantiadis wrote:
> Le 13/10/10 16:45, David Woodhouse a écrit :
> > Because it listens separately on a Legacy IP socket, so it doesn't want
> > its IPv6 socket accepting Legacy IP connections.
>
> Is there a specific advantage of doing this this way ? It's normally
> possible to bind a single socket for both ipv6 and ipv4 sockets.

Not on all operating system variants.

gert
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