IPv6 links are unfortunately not "reliable." Many IPv6 gateways, while not

implementing NAT, do implement stateful firewalling with absurdly short
timeouts (<60s). Keepalives are still required in IPv6.

Network engineers continue to mindlessly carry forward cruft and baggage
from IPv4 to IPv6.
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Adam Ierymenko 2016-05-31 10:30:00 -07:00
parent 68d950c344
commit 2c995f1f91

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@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ public:
*/
inline bool reliable() const throw()
{
if (_addr.ss_family == AF_INET)
if ((_addr.ss_family == AF_INET)||(_addr.ss_family == AF_INET6))
return ((_ipScope != InetAddress::IP_SCOPE_GLOBAL)&&(_ipScope != InetAddress::IP_SCOPE_PSEUDOPRIVATE));
return true;
}