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

[Olle E. Johansson]

18 apr 2013 kl. 08:45 skrev Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au>:

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>> From: Marc Heuse <mh at mh-sec.de>
>> To: IPv6 Hackers Mailing List <ipv6hackers at lists.si6networks.com>
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>> Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013 5:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ipv6hackers] Windows 7/2008 R2 Improved Resilliency to IPv6 Floods
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>> On 15.04.2013 05:24, Jim Small wrote:
>>>> In my mind, that's a poor tradeoff. I would much rather have seen 
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>>>> implement happy eyeballs. It would have much greater overall benefit,
>>>> and none of the drawbacks.
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>> 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.
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> Mark Andrews' code (threads, poll and select based) might qualify, and has quite a liberal license:
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> http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201101/how-to-connect-to-a-multi-homed-server-over-tcp

Thanks for that pointer. Very useful!

/O