Re: inet_aton -> inet_pton

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Colm Smyth wrote:

> Browsing the ORBit source suggests that there is full support for IPv6
> provided by the IOP_TAG_ORBIT_SPECIFIC (0xbadfaecal ;) connection type.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. Is there any possibility of migrating from inet_aton()
>    to the inet_pton() API?

Probably so.

> 2. Has there been any significant testing of ipv6 support?

None.

> Any information about ORBit's level of IPv6 support would be
> greatly appreciated.

I think you might want to consider playing with ORBit2 instead. It uses
linc, which is possibly a nicer way to take care of all the transport
abstractions. It also takes care of CORBA transport-independance in a
nicer way than either the CORBA spec or IOP_TAG_ORBIT_SPECIFIC allow.

I only recently learned about inet_pton - it sounds like a great idea, and
I would be very happy to accept a linc patch to add this from someone who
knows more about it than I...

While I'm certainly not against fixing ORBit stable up as well, keep in
mind that it very well may have design flaws that prevent IPv6 usage,
which might not be fixable for compat & maintainance sanity reasons... If
you want to take that risk, patches are welcome there too.

-- Elliot
A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.
	(WC Fields)