What does #ffff## in xauth do (apart from breaking my X forwarding...)

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Mon May 25 14:06:36 PDT 2009


I wonder whether this is an artifact of ipv4 packets to/from an ipv6
interface, where v4 addresses map to v6 addresses in ::ffff:/96 and
therefore have the form « ::ffff:a.b.c.d ».

Just speculating,

-JimC
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