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X Might Be Ready For IPV6

Posted by timothy on from the bajillions-and-bajillions dept.

makapuf writes "According to linuxtoday, the X Consortium has published enhancement proposals to let X and IPV6 interoperate. This is surely a relief for the masses here that longed for X support for IPV6. Or the contrary? The proposal can be found here."

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  1. Problem... by yehim1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    IPv6 support for X seems to be a logical move, since the only way IPv6 would be embraced by the masses would be the support by the applications. After all, it takes but a few changes to the network layer socket code for the different packet structure.

    However, the applications layer is important as well. For example, the X team has to consider changing XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 to XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2 since the earlier could not support the longer packet structure.

    Another change of mindset for X users that is required is the way of specifying the display number (:0, :1, etc) with the IPv6 address, since both IPv6 and the screen number uses the colon (:) separator.

    Thus, the traditional way of denoting 2003:1080:1111:4034:1212:3fdb:1123:0001 with screen :1 would be

    2003:1080:1111:4034:1212:3fdb:1123:0001:1 !!

    For the clients, the X team has suggested the use of strrchr or rindex in their code so as to maintain compability.

    For the human users, we need a DNS (most probably, since the address is too long to remember), or, well, we can all use an extra octet in the address, can we?

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