Re: Networking design proposal

2002-10-26 Thread Niels Möller
Olivier Péningault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know where you saw this use of IPv6 address that automagically > include IPv4 addresses. I'm talking about the "IPv4-mapped IPv6 address", as defined in section 2.5.4 in RFC 2373 (you've found it already). The hack to let an ipv6 socket ac

Re: Networking design proposal

2002-10-26 Thread Niels Möller
Olivier Péningault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > le sam 26-10-2002 à 20:13, Niels Möller a écrit : > > like, it could be the current pfinet interface (where is that defined? > in /hurd/socket.defs Thanks. There's one thing I don't understand: What's an "address"? Like in /* Create an address f

Re: Networking design proposal

2002-10-26 Thread Olivier Péningault
le sam 26-10-2002 à 20:13, Niels Möller a écrit : I have one remark, and some questions about your proposal. > Layer 3 (IPv4 and IPv6), part 1 > ~~~ > Tells the interface that we're interested in packets with the given > ip-address. Can be a unicast or multicast a

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2002-10-26 Thread adaobim
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Re: Networking design proposal

2002-10-26 Thread Olivier Péningault
le sam 26-10-2002 à 20:13, Niels Möller a écrit : > Layer 4 interface > > like, it could be the current pfinet interface (where is that defined? in /hurd/socket.defs This is interesting, when I will have finished the update of the implementation I propose, I will send it (tomorrow, I hope). olivi

Networking design proposal

2002-10-26 Thread Niels Möller
I've tried to ponder on what the interfaces to the layer2 and layer3 code should look like. I'm thinking primarily of ipv4 and ipv6 over ethernet, but I hope it's not too difficult to generalize to other media. Summary ~~~ I propose splitting the code into the following parts: layer 2 (device

Re: New network implementation proposal [was: Re: ipv6 on hurd]

2002-10-26 Thread Niels Möller
Olivier Péningault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > le ven 25-10-2002 à 10:25, Niels Möller a écrit : > > Sure, but do you really want them to run fully separately? It's common > > (although not required by any standard, afaik), that an ipv6 socket > > bound to the ipv6 wildcard interface should be a