[GnomeMeeting-devel-list] GM and IPv6 -- short note (nothing urgent)

[Christian Strauf <strauf uni-muenster de>]

Dear gnomemeeting-devel-list,

I was playing around with gnomemeeting (yesterday's snapshot) a little to find
out about IPv6-support. Let me explain quickly, what my prerequisites are:
- pwlib 1.4.8 installed with IPv6-support
- openh323 1.11.4 installed with IPv6-support
- Tested IPv6-support (as proposed in ReadMe.txt of pwlib's source-tarball)
with the sample-programm "simple" that can be found in the directory
openh323/samples/simple/ of the openh323-source. It worked nicely.

I compiled gnomemeeting's snapshot with "./autogen.sh --enable-ipv6" which
worked as well. When starting gnomemeeting, "lsof -i tcp" tells me that
gnomemeeting binds to all IPv4-addresses. I was wondering, if there's a way to
tell gnomemeeting to bind to a specific IP? If it would be possible to pass an
IPv6-address e.g. with a commandline-parameter, this would probably suffice to
enable complete IPv6-support. If I understand correctly, gnomemeeting simply
uses the connectivity provided by pwlib/openh323 (except of course the
gatekeeper and LDAP/ILS-stuff). (I'm not much of a coder myself, so please
correct me if I'm wrong.) Is this difficult to implement? Something like

gnomemeeting -i [2001:638:500:200:210:5aff:fe4c:cfd1]

would be great. (Of course it's more important to get the new release done
first. I also know that Damien has this on his TODO already which I really
appreciate. There's no hurry. This was just a thought I had today which I
wanted to share.)

Christian

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