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From: Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@epa.gov>
Subject: Re: socat with IP6 support?
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:44:58 -0500
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> > > can you build socat with IPv6 support out of the box and it actually
> > > works?
> > 
> > It did build and work just fine with the FreeBSD ip6.h file, with and
> > without the patch, but as I said, for all that socat uses the actual
> > ip6.h library, I could have put in a file empty except for the #define
> > and it would probably have worked just as well.  Other programs may,
> > of course, be slightly pickier.
> 
> Thanks.  I added the ip6.h header nevertheless for the upcoming
> Cygwin 1.7.28.
> 
> Andrew, any chance you could update the socat package to support
> IPv6 as well?

Sure.  I'll do some basic testing once it's built but would appreciate
some more thorough testing - Aaron, I assume you can help with that.

I'm glad people are using socat.  It's a pretty comprehensive tool.

Andrew


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