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dick

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Message 32455 - Posted: 29 Apr 2010, 12:43:18 UTC

All.

Some years ago I posted a request to make Boinc IPv6 compatible (for Microsoft Windows).
The reason was that IPv4 addresses would be scarce in some years.

Now the number of IPv4 addresses available for new assignments has decreased to less than 10% (see Arin, Ripe, etc). The forecast is that in 2 years all IPv4 addresses will be assigned. Additional Internet addresses will be IPv6.

The newer Microsoft OSes are IPv6 enabled and operate fine in my environment.
Many applications are IPv6 compliant too.

So I repeat my question: When will we make Boinc IPv6 compliant?

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Dick.
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Message 32465 - Posted: 29 Apr 2010, 15:46:08 UTC

David Anderson wrote:
We'll eventually do this, but right now it seems like a very low priority.
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Message 32526 - Posted: 2 May 2010, 5:12:19 UTC - in response to Message 32455.  

When will we make Boinc IPv6 compliant?


It already is. It has been since libcurl was IPv6 compliant.

I actually tried setting up a BOINC project with the webserver listening only on IPv6, and the BOINC client could attach and get work normally.
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