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shimlib

Availability and IPv6 support

Name

IPv6 support

Supported operating systems

[http://geminis.myip.org/sources/shimlib.c shimlib]

included

Linux only

[http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/6to4/noipv4.html shimlib]

included

BSD only

Description

IPv4-less Internet client setup (Bump in the API- BAI) Allows execution of IPv4 applications on IPv6 only boxes

Comments

Linux Usage e.g.: LD_PRELOAD=./shimlib.so wget --proxy=off www.ipv6.bieringer.de ; Note: currently only working with glibc-2.2

Most of the case also need NAT-PT.

Usage information

Categories

CategoryApps, CategoryAppstransition

Source of information

[http://www.daemonnews.org Daemonnews]