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On 3/16/2010 8:41 AM, Antonio Querubin wrote:
> You might find it simpler to just make all sockets/sockaddrs AF_INET6.
> The only time you might worry about the actual AF would be on display
> output.  Ie. display IPv4-mapped addresses as IPv4.

That's not really an option.  I'm the inetutils (e.g. r* clients and
daemons, telnet client and daemon, etc) maintainer for cygwin -- I'm
trying to create the next official cygwin release of those tools.

I don't think people would be very happy if they only supported IPv6.

--
Chuck

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