Re: [crack-attack-devel] IPv6 patch for crack-attack

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 06 May 2005 10:34 am, A.O. wrote:
> On Thu, 5 May 2005 21:08:15 -0400
> Ok, here's the patch against today's CVS code.
> It is a bit raw and experimental, but it can get better with your help.

i'll take a peek

> > it's quiet common for apps that support both ipv4 and ipv6 to have
> > '-4' and  '-6' options so you can specify whether you want to force
> > ipv4 or ipv6 ...  also, i'm sure there's plenty of people around here
> > who can help out with  autotools
> > -mike
>
> This choice can be added, of course, but maybe it can be more useful a
> --bind option for the server part, to make the server listen only on a
> given address, if thare are many. The -6 and -4 switches would be
> trivial to implement but using them it sounds to me like breaking
> the concept of Address Family Independance.

the -4 and -6 options are used to force selection, not to force users to make 
a selection :)  so both concepts should be accounted for in this schema

> I do not know if my code works on Windows, does Windows have a good
> getnameinfo implementation?

i cant really help in this aspect ... ive done very little win32 networking 
and most of it was trivial stuff anyways
-mike