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Re: RPC IPv6 breaks binary compatibility


Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:

> Why should RPC authentication not work in a IPv6 environment ?
> This has nothing to do with IPv4.

The structures are different.  A program expecting the IPv4 versions
of the sockaddr element wil have problems with an IPv6 connectio.

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