From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] sockets: helper functions for qemu.
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:58:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490B475A.4000902@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081031175023.GM29492@redhat.com>
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:37:16PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> Gerd's patch does 'do the right thing' for 90% of people - it uses the
> AI_ADDRCONFIG flag. This means that the getaddrinfo() name lookup will
> only return an IPv6 address if there is at least one NIC with IPv6
> configured, likewise only return an IPv4 address if there is at least
> one NIC with IPv4 configured. There are still times when it is desirable
> to restrict it to just IPv4 or just IPv6, regardless of your host NIC
> config - mostly when needing to interact with other broken apps which are
> not correctly IPv6 aware. Maybe it would be sufficient to just have it added
> as a flag to the arg in question though, eg -serial tcp:localhost:123,ipv4
> rather than a global -ipv4 flag
>
Yes, this would be much nicer. I think having the options as a global
is likely to confuse users.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Daniel
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-31 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 12:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] ipv6 and autoport patches Gerd Hoffmann
2008-10-31 12:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Implement "info chardev" command Gerd Hoffmann
2008-10-31 17:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-31 12:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] sockets: helper functions for qemu Gerd Hoffmann
2008-10-31 17:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-31 17:50 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-10-31 17:58 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-10-31 19:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-03 15:35 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-10-31 12:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] sockets: switch vnc to new code, support vnc port auto-allocation Gerd Hoffmann
2008-10-31 12:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] sockets: switch over tcp/telnet/unix serial line to new helper functions Gerd Hoffmann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-28 12:55 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] ipv6 and autoport patches Gerd Hoffmann
2008-10-28 12:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] sockets: helper functions for qemu Gerd Hoffmann
2008-10-28 13:15 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-10-28 14:22 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-10-28 14:31 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-10-28 15:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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