[jcifs] jcifs and IPv6

[Michael B Allen]

Hi Avanish,

Ok. Great. And we would appreciate it if you post a patch. That would
at the very least expedite IPv6 support in JCIFS in the future.

Mike

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Michael B Allen
Java Active Directory Integration
http://www.ioplex.com/


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Dongre, Avinash <Avinash_Dongre at bmc.com> wrote:
> Hello Mike,
>
> Thanks, I tried couple of examples from the JCIFS source code
> And most of them are working for example, FileInfo.java and SlowRead.java is working fine
> with small problem.
>
> Thanks
> Avinash
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael B Allen [mailto:ioplex at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 11:36 PM
> To: Dongre, Avinash
> Cc: jcifs at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [jcifs] jcifs and IPv6
>
> Hi Avinash,
>
> No. I am not aware of any technical limitation in the Java language or
> CIFS that would prevent you from enabling JCIFS to support IPv6.
>
> The most sensitive places would probably be some authentication
> messages or binary blobs that have addresses in them. You would need
> to get a packet capture of Windows using IPv6, carefully study how
> Windows encodes these addresses and add code to encode and decode them
> using more generic routines. Also there may be a few places where
> dot-quad format is assumed. Of course those will need to be
> eliminated.
>
> In general, I'm sorry to say it would not be a trivial thing I think.
> But there is no technical barrier.
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael B Allen
> Java Active Directory Integration
> http://www.ioplex.com/
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Dongre, Avinash <Avinash_Dongre at bmc.com> wrote:
>> Hello Mike,
>> Thanks for your reply,
>> Is there any technical feasibility reason JCIFS does not support IPv6.
>> I might want to give a try to port current JCIFS to IPv6, so would like to know
>> If there are any feasibility reason.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Avinash
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael B Allen [mailto:ioplex at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:37 AM
>> To: Dongre, Avinash
>> Cc: jcifs at lists.samba.org
>> Subject: Re: [jcifs] jcifs and IPv6
>>
>> Hi Avinash,
>>
>> No, JCIFS does not support IPv6.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> --
>> Michael B Allen
>> Java Active Directory Integration
>> http://www.ioplex.com/
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Dongre, Avinash <Avinash_Dongre at bmc.com> wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Does JCIFS support IPv6.
>>>
>>> If yes which version.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Avinash
>>
>>
>
>