Hear Say, Hear Say,
Unless your going to name sources don't use them in debate.
Here is one that does use the RFC 2553 model as ISV. Netscape.
Here are a list of vendors that support the merge Francis spoke of with
shipping products:
Solaris
HP-UX
IBM AIX
Compaq True64 UNIX
Compaq OpenVMS for TCP/IP
Also Netbsd and FreeBSD uses the model in 2553 since it was defined.
What programmers in what organizations are you talking about?
thanks
/jim
"Shout it out G.L.O.R.I.A." (Them [Van Morrison])
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Francis Dupont wrote:
>
> > => no, there are some codes which are written without switches.
>
> of course there are. RFC 2553 has been written in order to minimize the
> need for those switches.
>
> > Of course they work only on systems where IPv6 is fully integrated.
>
> i don't think so. switches are necessary in many cases (especially when
> you want the same code to work on a traditional ipv4 system that uses
> gethostby{name,addr} and on a new ipv6-compliant system which uses
> get{addr,name}info).
>
> > => I have ported many applications to IPv6 on BSD systems without
> > the problems you seemed to have encountered...
>
> it depends from the application and the policy of the programmer.
> i prefer not to modify existing ipv4 code (for compatibility with older
> systems), so i generally use A LOT of switches. i also try to be careful
> when handling common ipv6/ipv4 cases, and this make my work a little
> harder.
>
> i have seen that many programmers find difficult the process of porting
> their apps to ipv6. i think that we should write a small informational
> document that explains how to write good ipv6-compliant code.
> itojun's "Implementing AF-indipendent apps" is a very good document.
> however, it is obsolete and it doesn't give many informations.
>
> --
> Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem...
>
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