Re: integrating husni's ipv6 patch into squid-2

Guido Serassio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At 05:11 05/02/2008, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, Guido Serassio wrote:
>> >
>> >> I don't like so much the addition of IPv6 to Squid-2 for two main
>> >> reasons:
>> >>
>> >> - This could be a very dangerous thing for the Windows
>> >> compatibility, see the impact of the IPv6 merge into Squid-3, even
>> >> with the C++ help.
>> >
>> > Looking at it, XP and later has a sockaddr_storage of sorts:
>> >
>> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740504(VS.85).aspx
>> >
>> > Hm, the earliest appearance of this is Windows XP SDK; which means
>> > either faking it (and having to provide local versions of all the
>> > library functions that support it) or abstract it out enough so
>> > a v4-only build only affects a small area of the codebase (ie,
>> > somewhat what Amos has done in -3.)
>>
>> WinVista _almost_ supports the linux way of things. There are port-level
>> options that are defaulted differently, but otherwise the app needs to be
>> dual-stack capable.
>>
>> WinXP was faking it, you need to hold and open two of every listening
>> port
>> and hope for the best when opening client-facing ones, particularly
>> re-connects to an old client (ie FTP, SSH, pconn, maybe others).
>>
>> Win2K has NO support so all the required generic libraries need to be
>> emulated internally in squid. That had me and Guido spending several
>> weeks
>> of go-between locating and adapting code we could use in GPL squid.
>
> And the work on Squid-3 is still not completed, today we are at the step
> to build a Squid-3 IPv4 only on Windows, but for the full IPv6 support
> on Windows there is still a lot of work to do.
>
> See this thread sor some reference:
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-dev/200708/0075.html
>
> Regards
>
> Guido
>

Speaking of which, if you are up for another run at it Guido I have the
next 2 days mostly spare.

Amos

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