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From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Humberto Alves <hjalves@live.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute2] regression in ss output
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 19:11:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171018171116.GC32305@orbyte.nwl.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171016194958.669625db@xeon-e3>

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 07:49:58PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:00:36 -0700
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 14:28 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:44:07 +0000
> > > Humberto Alves <hjalves@live.com> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > Yes, just get rid of this 'if statement'.
> > > > in6addr_any should be represented as '::', not '*'. Otherwise it's 
> > > > impossible to distinguish IPv4 listening addresses from IPv6. Thank you :)  
> > > 
> > > But IPv6 accepts IPv4 as well.  
> > 
> > Not always (IPV6_V6ONLY socket option)
> > 
> > I agree that this recent change in ss is problematic.
> > 
> > Please give us back a way to distinguish IPV6 and IPv4
> 
> What about
> 	*:80	<< both IPV6 and IPV4
> 	[::]:80	<< IPV6_ONLY
> 	0.0.0.0:80  << IPV4_ONLY

Assuming that this will be distinguished based on INET_DIAG_SKV6ONLY
attribute, tc will then use the asterisk for v6only sockets on older
kernels not supporting the feature.

Fine with me, just a heads-up!

Cheers, Phil

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-18 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-13  9:57 [iproute2] regression in ss output Humberto Alves
2017-10-16 10:33 ` Phil Sutter
2017-10-16 20:44   ` Humberto Alves
2017-10-16 21:28     ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-10-17  2:00       ` Eric Dumazet
     [not found]         ` <20171016194958.669625db@xeon-e3>
2017-10-18 14:08           ` Humberto Alves
2017-10-18 14:17             ` Eric Dumazet
2017-10-18 17:11           ` Phil Sutter [this message]
2017-10-18 17:58           ` [iproute PATCH] ss: Distinguish between IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard sockets Phil Sutter
2017-10-23 12:41             ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-10-16 16:20 ` [iproute2] regression in ss output Stephen Hemminger
2017-10-16 20:34   ` Humberto Alves

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