From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Allow Both IPv6 and IPv4 Sockets on the Same Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 06:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20021003.060254.26942488.davem@redhat.com> References: <20021003.012904.75241727.davem@redhat.com> <200210031306.RAA29293@sex.inr.ac.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru In-Reply-To: <200210031306.RAA29293@sex.inr.ac.ru> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:06:48 +0400 (MSD) No, really! __Sharing__ of port space between IPv4 and IPv6 was mad idea. It cannot generalized to other protocol families. So, IPV6_V6ONLY is really unique for IPv6. Well, actually, it could be negated: be default and the option would be called IPV6_SHARE_THIS_PORT_TO_IPV4. I think what I want to really say is that I want to provide way for ipv4 application to say "no ipv6 connections on this listening socket please". So does it make no sense at all to have IP_V4ONLY?