[PATCH dpdk v1 00/15] IPv6 APIs overhaul

Robin Jarry rjarry at redhat.com
Thu Aug 22 17:16:00 CEST 2024


Stephen Hemminger, Aug 22, 2024 at 16:13:
> Why does DPDK need to have its own definitions of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses?
> The structures in_addr and in6_addr exist on Linux, BSD, and Windows.
> It creates lots of code reimplementation (see inet_ntop etc).

By the way, you can call inet_ntop(AF_INET6) with the rte_ipv6_addr type 
I introduce here. It works fine.



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