Re: Fwd: server side ipv6 support

[Nagaraj Komarasamy <1inmillion@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tilo and Aris,

Thanks for your reply. This boosts my confidence.I will get back to you if
I need more information.

Thanks,
Naga

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Aris Adamantiadis <aris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 1: very nice, I didn't expect libssh to run on so many systems! The ones
> I have no experience returns with are HP-UX, Sco openserver, OpenVMS. We
> tested it on enough platforms to ensure that 32/64 bits and cpu
> endianess aren't issues.
>
> 2: IPv6 support isn't built-in (we wanted to go the OpenSSH way and open
> two sockets, and that got delayed...), but if you want it the fix is
> trivial (change socket type and bind on :: instead of 0.0.0.0). Or go
> Tilo's way and pass your own accept'ed socket.
>
> Aris
>
> On 7/07/16 09:39, Tilo Eckert wrote:
> > Hello Nagaraj
> >
> > 1. libssh should be compilable on any platform where you have a recent
> > enough cmake version and OpenSSL/gcrypt available. We currently have it
> > working on Windows, Linux, z/Linux, and even z/OS. For the mainframe
> > compile we had to create a custom makefile (no cmake available) and make
> > some modifications, but it works.
> >
> > 2. We don't use the server part, but IPv6 should work because you can
> > pass a custom socket fd through the server API. See:
> > http://api.libssh.org/master/group__libssh__server.html
> >
> > Regards
> > Tilo
> >
> > Am 07.07.2016 um 07:46 schrieb Nagaraj Komarasamy:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I am working on to check the feasibility of using libssh with our
> >> product. Our product is distributed and each installation will listen on
> >> a particular port and we need to secure it with publickey cryptography
> >> and public key authentication. Each installation will act as a server by
> >> itself and will be a client to other installations.
> >>
> >> Following are first list of queries comes to mind.
> >>
> >> 1. should I be able to compile libssh on the following platforms? If
> >> anyone faced any issues on compiling in any of the platforms, please let
> >> me know.
> >>
> >>   * windows 32 and 64 bit
> >>   * Linux 32 and 64 bit
> >>   * HP-UX (PA-RISC) 11.11, 11.23, 11.31
> >>   * HP-UX (Itanium) 11.23, 11.31
> >>   * Novell Open Enterprise Server 2.0 for Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)
> >>   * Novell Open Enterprise Server 11.x for Linux (64-bit)
> >>   * Novell Open Enterprise Server 2015 for Linux (64-bit)
> >>   * Sun Solaris (SPARC) 9, 10, 11
> >>   * Sun Solaris (x86, x64) 10, 11
> >>   * SCO OpenServer 6.0.0
> >>   * Open VMS 8.3 , 8.4 (Alpha)
> >>   * Open VMS 8.3, 8.3-1H1 , 8.4 (Itanium)
> >>   * Mac OS X Server 10.6.x (64-bit) (x64)
> >>
> >>
> >> 2. IPV6 server side support available?
> >>
> >> Let me know if you need more information.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Naga
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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