there was some work but it was not finished, then is kind of aborted (for now). if you want to take a look there are some primitives in the networking plugin… never finished, never tested, never done :)
Esteban > On 14 Feb 2017, at 13:20, Peter Uhnak <i.uh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > does anyone know what is the state of Pharo's IPv6 support? > > I've found some discussion from 2009/2010 talking about it and making changes > to the VM, but it seems incomplete. > > Creating IPv6 socket seems to be supported on the VM side (and I had no > failure when I modified the netType from 0 to 3 in Socket>>initialize:) > > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/blob/master/opensmalltalk-vm/platforms/unix/plugins/SocketPlugin/sqUnixSocket.c#L521 > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/blob/master/opensmalltalk-vm/platforms/win32/plugins/SocketPlugin/sqWin32NewNet.c#L1325 > > However creating connection fails I guess here > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/blob/master/opensmalltalk-vm/src/plugins/SocketPlugin/SocketPlugin.c#L1151 > > And even if it didn't fail there, sqSocketConnectToPort accepts address in > sqInt (4 bytes), and sets the type to AF_INET > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/blob/master/opensmalltalk-vm/platforms/unix/plugins/SocketPlugin/sqUnixSocket.c#L736 > > Was the effort abandoned? Am I doing something wrong and it actually should > work? > > > Also NetNameResolver in Pharo is IPv4 only, but that's not an issue here. > > Thanks, > Peter >