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Re: socat with IP6 support?


On May  8 15:23, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > On Jan 20 03:45, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > Cygwin doesn't seem to
> > > define IPV6_DSTOPTS.  In Ubuntu, it's defined in
> > > /usr/include/linux/in6.h (value 59), along with a whole bunch of other
> > > IPv6 socket options.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure what the best solution is here.  I could define it locally,
> > > but would it be better for Cygwin to bring in the missing definitions?
> > 
> > I don't think so.  I checked the available options on Windows again,
> > and IPV6_DSTOPTS is not supported.  I applied a small patch a few
> > minutes ago to add a few socket options our headers were missing,
> > but there are still a lot of Linux socket options not supported on
> > Windows which hinders CYgwin to support them.
> > 
> > Any chance you could tweak this piece of code to be built only
> > if IPV6_DSTOPTS is defined?
> > 
> > Corinna
> 
> I finally got back to this.  I seem to have worked around the problem in
> socat v2.  I've uploaded new packages for 1.7 and 2 that have IPv6 support,
> but that will need to be tested.  Andrew

I can do that in my local IPv6 setup, if you give me an easy example...


Corinna

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