From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 16 20:19:24 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 477FA16A47C for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:19:24 +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 BF53543CC3 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:19:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from srv.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1] helo=ipt.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gvg05-000Cxo-Dz; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:19:17 +0300 Received: from bsam by ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gvg1C-000C24-Sd; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:20:26 +0300 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <00614590@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <1166295004.21155.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <48751517@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <1166297330.21155.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:20:26 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1166297330.21155.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> (Joe Marcus Clarke's message of "Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:28:50 -0500") Message-ID: <22031973@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 20:19:24 -0000 On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:28:50 -0500 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 22:13 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: > > 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... > Correct. If you have IPv6 enabled interfaces, then GDM will use IPv6. Got it, thanks. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve