[ace-users] question on ACE_INET_Addr

Premkumar P kumaran.prem at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 21:25:43 CDT 2007


hi,
thankx for the reply
i found ACE_USES_IPV4_IPV6_MIGRATION being used in ACE_INET_Addr to guess if
ipv6 works or not and then set the type properly will this help ??

regards,
Prem

On 8/2/07, Phil Mesnier <mesnier_p at ociweb.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Premkumar P wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > thankx for the help i used ipv6_enabled to know if IPV6 is enabled or
> > not and use AF_INET or AF_INET6.
> >
> > but as the machine is running in a pure IPV4 env., when creating
> > ACE_Proactor error messgae " unable to open notification pipe, address
> > family not supported" is being printed ..
> > by stepping in, found that notification pipe is being opened and the
> > address family is set to AF_INET6 by default (as ACE is compiled with
> > IPV6 support).
> >
>
> Right. When you prepare a build environment with "ipv6=1" in
> default.features a compiler macro, ACE_HAS_IPV6, is defined. This in
> turn causes ACE to make assumptions about the availability of that
> feature. In some cases a fallback to IPv4 occurs if an IPv6 based
> operation fails, but as you have learned, we are not 100% there yet.
>
> > i think if ACE is compiled with IPV6 support it should still be able to
> > work fine in IPV4 environment !
> > is there any workaround for this, i have to use the same ACE library on
> > all env. (IPV4, IPV6, IPV4-IPV6)
> >
>
> It would be great if you could contribute a patch to make this happen,
> or to sponsor one of the several commercial support providers to improve
> this support. See
> http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/commercial-support.html for the list.
>
> Alternatively, you could build an IPv4-only ace lib for deployment on
> hosts that lack IPv6 support.
>
> Regards,
> Phil
>
> --
> Phil Mesnier
> Principal Software Engineer,    http://www.ociweb.com
> Object Computing, Inc.          +01.314.579.0066
>
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