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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon blurpy

IPv6 support

Open mwarning opened this issue 8 years ago • 5 comments

Hi, does kouchat support iPv6? If not, this might be a nice feature.

mwarning avatar Nov 05 '17 00:11 mwarning

There is no multicast IPv6 support at the moment. I agree that it would be a nice feature, so keeping in the backlog.

blurpy avatar Nov 09 '17 17:11 blurpy

ok, thanks for the information!

mwarning avatar Nov 10 '17 13:11 mwarning

Is multicast necessary for all operations? Or only for discovery? I was looking for serverless chat protocols to use with global ipv6 vpns like cjdns and yggdrasil.

sdgathman avatar Aug 31 '19 00:08 sdgathman

@sdgathman that is my extended goal for https://github.com/meshenger-app/ (but with opt-in advertisments), but so far there is not chat support yet.

@blurpy kouchat works by using IPv4 broadcasts, iirc?

mwarning avatar Aug 31 '19 16:08 mwarning

@sdgathman The version of KouChat currently in development uses multicast for discovery and direct tcp connections for all communication after that. The released version uses multicast for most things, but direct udp for private chat and tcp for file transfer.

@mwarning KouChat does not use broadcast, only what's described above.

blurpy avatar Sep 01 '19 10:09 blurpy