[Opensim-dev] IPv6

[Johan Berntsson]

I did look a bit into it some time back, and what is needed is to change the IPADDR type in a handful of packets (and some changes in the client stack where ip addresses are used, but nothing major). The problem is that we don't have a client that handles ipv6. However, a possible stop-gap solution could be to use a custom client-side proxy and that intercepts and replaces packets that contain IPADDR with new packets that support ipv6. For example, changing

    OpenCircuit Fixed 0xFFFFFFFC NotTrusted Unencoded
    {
        CircuitInfo     Single
        {   IP          IPADDR  }
        {   Port        IPPORT  }
    }
to
    OpenCircuitIPV6 Fixed 0x????? NotTrusted Unencoded
    {
        CircuitInfo     Single
        {   IP          IPV6ADDR  }
        {   Port        IPPORT  }
    }

where IPV6ADDR is byte[16]

I don't have time or need for this at the moment, but I could support anyone who wants to make patches.

/Johan

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