Introduction to IPv6 Socket Programming

Owen DeLong
IPv6 Evangelist, Hurrican Electric

Linux Users' Group of Davis
February 21, 2011

• "Porting IPv6 applications to IPv4/v6 dual stack (624KB PDF)
  presentation slides (624KB PDF)
• Example code:
  • Specifications (TXT)
    usage of server & client apps)
  • C
    • v4_server.c
    • v6_server.c
    • diff_server
    • v4_client.c
    • v6_client.c
    • diff_client
    • fixes.h (strnlen)
  • Perl
    • v4_server.pl
    • v6_server.pl
    • diff_server
    • v4_client.pl
    • v6_client.pl
    • diff_client
  • Python
    • v4_server.py
    • v6_server.py
    • diff_server
    • v4_client.py
    • v6_client.py
    • diff_client
• Other Links:
  • Feb. 21st, 2011 LUGOD meeting:
    • Meeting minutes
    • Photos
  • "IPv6 Porting Information"
    (source of slides and example code mirrored here, plus more)
  • Hurrican Electric home page
  • Linux Users' Group of Davis home page