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 06:13:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20021003.061340.91772406.davem@redhat.com> References: <20021003.060254.26942488.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: pekkas@netcore.fi In-Reply-To: Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Pekka Savola Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:18:53 +0300 (EEST) On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote: > So does it make no sense at all to have IP_V4ONLY? Umm, I think an app guy can do that with creating an AF_INET socket; there will not be IPv6 there. Folks Who Think They Know Best decided that dual use for AF_INET6 would be best, and IPV6_V6ONLY was invented (note: it'd already implemented by some others) to repair that. Ok, ignore my silly idea then. Let us continue with verifying correctness of the USAGI patch.