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Re: IPv6 help (Re: inetutils, r* commands)


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
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