rx/simple.example broken (Re: [OpenAFS-devel] IPv6 Status)

[Matt W. Benjamin]

Hi,

Actually, some of the VL db work is iirc done, in YFS work.  Derrick can probably give pointers.

Matt

----- "Russ Allbery" <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

> Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> writes:
> 
> > If I can do a brute-force search/replace of sockaddr_in with
> > sockaddr_in6 and make rx/simple.example work, we have some code to
> start
> > discussing other changes.
> 
> AFS is not the sort of network protocol that you can convert to IPv6
> by
> just doing some global search and replace in the code base.  There
> are
> significant protocol and on-disk file format issues.  For just one
> example, the Ubik database that stores the VLDB information can't
> store
> IPv6 addresses for file servers.
> 
> Just whacking the internal code structures without thinking about the
> protocol impact is not going to provide any useful information.
> 
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