[Firebird-devel] IPv6 Support

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Hello Everyone,

I have been looking around the source and cannot find anywhere that
supports IPv6 connections. I have started to make progress on the issue
and would like to know if anyone is interested, I only found one bug
report related to Jaybird and another that was found because it had IPv6
in a log dump. I have been using firebird for some time and would like for
it to support my IPv6 network so have started to make the changes to
inet.cpp and isc_file.cpp in my copy of the code. Could anyone who is
interested let me know how to submit patches once I have the work complete
and checked to the best of my ability?

The main client change is to allow a connection string like this:

[::ffff:192.0.2.128]:mydatabase

or a better IPv6 Address:

[2001:6b0:e:2018::172]:mydatabase

Sorry for my improvement request on the tracker, if nobody is interested
in IPv6 support I will remove it. The initial patch is ready but I am a
little concerned over aux_connection() and the PACKET data structure. Once
I know more about aux_connection() and realise any potential pitfalls I
will submit my patch to this list.

Many thanks,

Ben Green.