On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 04:18:54PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > Edwin Groothuis wrote: > >On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:15:29PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > >>>This should provide a direct answer to you question of "why"? But I > >>>suspect the underlying question is why divert sockets aren't supported > >>>for IPv6. I don't know why. > >>because no=one has done it and because divert sockaddrs are ipv4 sockaddrs > >> > >>you would have to make a new divert6 protocol. > >>That's not impossible, but no-one has done it. > > > >I've been looking at it, with hints from rwatson@ and bms@, but the > >problem right now lays in the way you can do dynamic protocol > >registrations with IPv4 but not yet with IPv6. Every time when I > >get one step further I end up with a new problem :-( > > > >Let's call it a learning excercise!
My adventures are written down at http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/html/00231.html > you could implement a whole new protocol family of which there > was a single protocol.. divert. > so you would open a socket of type. > > sock = socket(PF_DIVERT, SOCK_RAW, DIVPROTO_6); > instead of > > sin = socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_DIVERT); Euhm... that would make my goal more noble but certainly near impossible for me. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
