iyasar
Reputation: 1271
side effects of ipv6 migration
Has any side effect migration of ipv6 for AF_LOCAL or AF_UNiX address family ? ipv6 affects all system that were written for ipv4 exactly address family AF_INET ? i dont think so but i want to be sure about that can anyone help me ?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 208
Answers (1)
Simon Richter
Reputation: 29588
The address families are completely independent, except that you can ask the IPv6 stack to forward some operations to the IPv4 stack. Applications that use AF_UNIX or AF_INET are generally unaffected by the transition.
Upvotes: 1
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