IPPROTO_DIVERT and PF_INET6

[Julian Elischer]

Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
>> actually the divert sockets should really not be in PF_INET
>> they could deliver both inet and inet6 packets.
>> the sockaddr that they return (and which needs to be read for divert
>> to make sense) could be used to distinguish between them.
> 
> Good point. I'd forgotten that they were abusing the fields in sin_zero. 



"they" == "me"  :-)

if we made it its own protocol family we could define our own sockaddr 
types too and have actual fields for that stuff...


> This is not OK for IPv6, although the kludge can still be perpetuated by 
> looking at sa_len and stashing what divert wants at the end of 
> sockaddr_in6.
> 
> So there IS a case for making them a separate protocol family if 
> someone's going to do a clean implementation of divert sockets for IPv6.
> 
> cheers
> BMS