IPPROTO_DIVERT and PF_INET6
Bruce M. Simpson
bms at incunabulum.net
Wed May 7 07:41:00 UTC 2008
Julian Elischer wrote:
> actually the divert sockets should really not be in PF_INET
> they could deliver both inet and inet6 packets.
> the sockaddr that they return (and which needs to be read for divert
> to make sense) could be used to distinguish between them.
Good point. I'd forgotten that they were abusing the fields in sin_zero.
This is not OK for IPv6, although the kludge can still be perpetuated by
looking at sa_len and stashing what divert wants at the end of sockaddr_in6.
So there IS a case for making them a separate protocol family if
someone's going to do a clean implementation of divert sockets for IPv6.
cheers
BMS
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