[ipv6hackers] Windows 7/2008 R2 Improved Resilliency to IPv6 Floods

[Mark Smith]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Marc Heuse <mh at mh-sec.de>
> To: IPv6 Hackers Mailing List <ipv6hackers at lists.si6networks.com>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013 5:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [ipv6hackers] Windows 7/2008 R2 Improved Resilliency to IPv6 Floods
> 
> On 15.04.2013 05:24, Jim Small wrote:
>>>  In my mind, that's a poor tradeoff. I would much rather have seen 
> MS
>>>  implement happy eyeballs. It would have much greater overall benefit,
>>>  and none of the drawbacks.

 <snip>

> About the happy eyeballs technique - is there a simple best practice
> code published somewhere that is cross platform? That would be very
> helpful to point to and encourage developers to implement instead.
> 

Mark Andrews' code (threads, poll and select based) might qualify, and has quite a liberal license:

http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201101/how-to-connect-to-a-multi-homed-server-over-tcp


Regards,
Mark.