[Interest] QUdpSocket and IPv6

[Thiago Macieira]

Em sex 21 mar 2014, às 09:20:36, Bob Hood escreveu:
> Hey, all.  This is just a quick question about IPv4 and IPv6 support in
> QUdpSocket.
> 
> I've written a datagram-based client/server application using QUdpSocket,
> and it functions perfectly well on my IPv4-based internal network.  The
> client uses IPv4 datagram broadcasting to discover the server on the
> network.  I don't have an IPv6 network set up to test on, and I'm wondering
> if an out-of-the-box QUdpSocket will silently and automatically support an
> IPv6 network if the application is installed into that environment, or if
> there is something extra and explicit I need to do to account for that
> before I deploy anything.
> 
> I've read the docs for QUdpSocket and aside from the multicast support, I've
> not seen anything explicitly mentioning IPv4-vs-IPv6 in the class.

QUdpSocket works in IPv6 mode.

The question is whether your code is IPv6-compatible or whether you've made 
assumption about IPv4 that don't hold in an IPv6 network. So you'll have to 
test to be sure.

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  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center