Binding SCTP sockets to the IPv6 lopback address
Bruce Cran
bruce at cran.org.uk
Wed Oct 15 05:47:13 PDT 2008
I've been writing some basic SCTP socket code and have found that SCTP
doesn't bind to the loopback IPv6 address - it binds to all the other
addresses, including the external IPv6, link-local and IPv4 loopback
addresses. Is there something about the way SCTP works that means it
doesn't work over IPv6 loopback?
The code I'm running calls getaddrinfo with the hints to set AF_UNSPEC,
SOCK_STREAM, AI_PASSIVE and then it calls bind with the protocol set to
IPPROTO_SCTP.
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Bruce Cran
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