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smc-tools package

  1. Bug #1689782
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Comment 1 for bug 1689782

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : Re: [17.10 FEAT] New package: smc-tools >=1.1.0

Is IBM going to package this and maintain it in Debian?
And then Ubuntu can then sync this package from Debian.

Ubuntu defaults to net.ipv6.bindv6only=0 and we will not switch the default to 1.
Advising to use such a sysctl is actively harmful.
Why not advise users to use setsockopt IPV6_V6ONLY option instead? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3493#section-5.3
and can be done transparently in the preload library.

Why doesn't AF_SMC support IPv6? It seems quite archaic.

Using a preload library, and advising to use preload library feels a bit dodgy to me. But that's just my personal opinion that preload libraries should only be used in testsuites.