(usagi-users 03370) Re: Any particular reason that IPV6_TCLASS/IPV6_RECVTCLASS is not implemented?

In article <[email protected]> (at Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:36:28 +0200 (CEST)), "Peder Chr. Norgaard" <[email protected]> says:

> Therefore I was pretty surprised to discover that the
> IPV6_TCLASS/IPV6_RECVTCLASS socket options are not implemented.  It
> doesn't strike me as a particularly difficult task - I would guess that
> the code from IPv4 could be copied more or less directly.
> 
> I intend to have a go at the task myself, but would like to have opinions
> first; after all, there may be some reason that it is more complicated
> than I think.

Well, we have some trivial code for linux-2.4, but it is not in 2.6, yet.
We could have ported that, but we haven't, because it is too trivial;
we should consider about interaction between tclass and flowlabel
configuration before doing that.

--yoshfuji