[tor-dev] Tor AF independence patch - first big step to Tor IPv6

Nick Mathewson nickm at freehaven.net
Mon Jun 20 21:44:26 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Nick Mathewson <nickm at freehaven.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote:
 [...]
>> A question there also becomes, do we want to show a Tor node as separate
>> IPv4 and IPv6 routers, or are they to be seen as one, if it is one, we
>> require the above ORMultiport, so that we can have multiple IP addresses
>> and ports on a single node.
>
> It's one router; it has to be.  After all, it needs to be able

Missing sentence:

After all, every IPv6-enabled router needs to be able to connect to
IPv4 and IPv6 addresses both, or else there will be two completely
separate networks, which would be bad for anonymity.

-- 
Nick


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