IPv6 question

John Burton john.burton at jbmail.com
Mon Feb 16 15:52:15 EST 2004

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"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message
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> John Burton wrote:
> > I've got a horrible feeling it doesn't work like this on windows though
> > (my python build on windows doesn't seem to support ipv6 so I can't
> > try it)
>
> If you want to try IPv6 support on Windows, you can use a Python 2.4
> snapshot I built, at
>
> http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/home/loewis/python2.4.0.12421.msi

Thanks for this it seems to work well.
It does seem that on windows you need to bind different sockets to the same
address,
one for IPv4 and one for IPv6 whereas on linux the IPv6 socket will receive
connections to both.

I suppose that's not a big problem but a shame.

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