IPv6 support and cleanup of address family dependency in userland utilities
- Mentors
- Li-Wen Hsu, Hiroki Sato
- Organization
- The FreeBSD Project
- Technologies
- c, freebsd, Network Programming
- Topics
- network, Operated System
FreeBSD boasts a plethora of userspace command tools utilizing IPv4 network programming APIs and exhibiting address family dependency. With the emergence of IPv6 to address the limitations of IPv4, it's imperative to update these tools to utilize address-independent APIs, thereby facilitating seamless handling of both IPv4 and IPv6 connections.