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darkskiez replied to Lee Dilkie's discussion 'Platform differences with v4/v6 sockets bind/listen' in the group v6 Software Developers

"On linux you can change this behaviour: sysctl -w net.ipv6.bindv6only = 1 add the setting to /etc/sysctl.conf for permanence. Caveat: There are bugs in older versions of java that this breaks however."

Jul 12, 2010

Clayton Haapala replied to Lee Dilkie's discussion 'Platform differences with v4/v6 sockets bind/listen' in the group v6 Software Developers

"Windows Vista and later re-implemented the networking stack, and it is now "unified" like the Unix ones. I believe the default is still to accept connections on just the address family explicitly bound, but there is a control option to…"

Jun 6, 2010

BN Pradeep replied to Lee Dilkie's discussion 'Platform differences with v4/v6 sockets bind/listen' in the group v6 Software Developers

"This is probably because your windows OS uses separate stacks for Ipv4 and Ipv6, while linux is dual stack."

Apr 3, 2010

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Nov 18, 2009

Lee Dilkie added a discussion to the group v6 in Software Development

Platform differences with v4/v6 sockets bind/listen

Hi Folks,I just wanted to highlight some issues I've come across in my porting effort. The v6 socket implementation on windows and linux have difference behaviours that the developer needs to be aware of.Issue 1: "inaddr_any", "0.0.0.0" in v4 and "::" in v6 behave differently. This discussion assumes a server situation where bind() and listen() are to be used.In windows: you can create two sockets and bind one to 0.0.0.0 and the other to :: and the v4 bound socket will accept v4 connections and…See More

Nov 11, 2009

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