[ntp:questions] ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Sat Jan 10 15:03:31 UTC 2009


Dave Hart wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Danny Mayer <mayer at ntp.isc.org
> <mailto:mayer at ntp.isc.org>> wrote:
> 
>     We do have code for this. I won't use Microsoft's code though except the
>     standard API code. It's a matter of getting it back in. There is one
>     item that may yet cause me grief but that's a matter of figuring
>     everything out.
> 
> I do not understand why using Microsoft's Windows header files as
> documented to enable the broadest IPv6 support on Windows is reaching
> beyond "standard API code."  If you do roll-your-own, please do also
> support the different DLL used on Windows 2000 for IPv6 APIs.
>  

We want to use the API's where they are available but use the emulations
where they are not. You can't do that with Microsoft's source code, you
would only get that emulation. We build once and deploy many and you
want to take advantage of the API in the MS DLL's where available.

Danny

> Cheers,
> Dave Hart




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