IPv6 Connectivity

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 17:13 +0100, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> 
> Indeed. I realized that in Linux there is black magic involved to set
> an IPv6 address to a device. The same ioctl is used (SIOCSIFADDR) but
> a different structure is passed (in6_ifreq) which isn't typically
> defined. Moreover SIOCGIFADDR isn't able to read the IPv6 address.

You should be using netlink for configuration, not the legacy ioctls.

> I think also that my assumption that a tun device allows for both an
> IPv4 and IPv6 address isn't true.

You *can* have both IPv6 and Legacy IP on a tun device simultaneously.
But perhaps not if you're just using the legacy ioctls?

-- 
dwmw2
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