Once upon a time in the ip protocol there was INADDR_BROADCAST, and all seemed happy. from "man ipv6": " IPv6 supports several address types: unicast to address a single host, multicast to address a group of hosts, anycast to address the nearest member of a group of hosts (not implemented in Linux), IPv4-on-IPv6 to address a IPv4 host, and other reserved address types." from net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c +582: ... /* * connect() to INADDR_ANY means loopback (BSD'ism). */ if(ipv6_addr_any(&usin->sin6_addr)) usin->sin6_addr.s6_addr[15] = 0x1; ... Why it isn't supported? Is there a particular reason to follow this BSD'ism? Is it possible to achieve the same result of INADDR_BROADCAST with multicast? The propagation has to be restricted only to the neighbour nodes. Best Regards -- :wq! "I don't know nothing" The One Who reached the Thinking Matter '.' [ Alpt --- Freaknet Medialab ] [ GPG Key ID 441CF0EE ] [ Key fingerprint = 8B02 26E8 831A 7BB9 81A9 5277 BFF8 037E 441C F0EE ]
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