Summary
Refactor TCP unit to make ipv6 work from core
Metadata
- Id: 1cbb1af7f39befe25bd26bfc7eb2a80fb8f84067
- Trac id: 1656
- Type: enhancement
- Reporter: sjamaan
- Owner:
- Cc:
- Status: new
- Component: core libraries
- Estimated difficulty: medium
- Resolution:
- Priority: major
- Milestone: 6.0.0
- Version: 5.1.0
- Changetime: 2023-11-06 22:15:09 UTC
- Created: 2019-11-26 09:37:56 UTC
- Keywords: tcp, sockets, ipv6, ipv4
Description
With the IPv4 address space having officially run out, I think we should start planning to make the tcp6 egg part of core.
Changes and comments
[2021-04-12 13:39:12 UTC] sjamaan changed milestone from 5.3 to 5.4
[2021-07-15 10:58:07 UTC] teiresias wrote:
I would love to work on this. What can I do to help?
[2021-07-15 11:23:46 UTC] sjamaan wrote:
Hi! Thanks a lot for wanting to help out. I think the best thing you can do is take a close look at the tcp6 egg and identify what would be required to make it part of core in a backwards-compatible way (i.e., existing ipv4 code should continue to work).