[zeromq-dev] [PATCH] Additional preparation for IPv6 in 3.0

Martin Sustrik sustrik at 250bpm.com
Fri Jul 22 18:27:43 CEST 2011


On 07/22/2011 12:54 PM, Steven McCoy wrote:

> The idea is you should be able to bind a ZMQ socket to "tcp://*:5555"
> and listen on both IPv4 and IPv6 stacks by default.  This is inherently
> impossible with Windows XP unless you open two TCP sockets.

Why not open two sockets then? It should be relatively easy to launch 2 
listener objects instead of a single one.

> It is still confusing :-)

As intended, /me is confused :)

Martin



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