From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 16 19:12:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3E416A407 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:12:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [80.253.10.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A389443CA7 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:12:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from admin.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1] helo=ipt.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GvexR-000Cqz-7X; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:12:29 +0300 Received: from bsam by ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GveyY-000BrA-Ik; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:13:38 +0300 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <00614590@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <1166295004.21155.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:13:38 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1166295004.21155.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> (Joe Marcus Clarke's message of "Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:50:04 -0500") Message-ID: <48751517@srv.sem.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x11/gdm: default IPv6 disables IPv4 for xdmcp X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:12:31 -0000 On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:50:04 -0500 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 22:30 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: > > Way back before gnome-2.14 IPv6 and IPv4 were mutual exclusive. > > Current gdm-2.16.4 behaves the same: > > > > - gdm built with defaults listens only at udp6: > > %netstat -a | grep xdm > > udp6 0 0 *.xdmcp *.* > > > > - disabling IPv6 helps to listen at udp4. > GDM has been fixed so that if IPv6 support is enabled, IPv4 support will > still work iff v6 does not at runtime. So, GDM will attempt to bind OK. As I understand it is so designed that with current defaults (GENERIC kernel, GDM built with default values, etc -- i.e. the recommended testing machine) GDM will not give IPv4 xdmcp access... > using an IPv6 address. Previously, if this failed, and IPv6 support was > enabled, GDM would not enable XDMCP support. Now, it will fallback to > IPv4. ...or I totally misunerstood you. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve