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authorMichael Santos <[email protected]>2015-10-18 16:20:37 -0400
committerMichael Santos <[email protected]>2016-02-10 16:57:13 -0500
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epmd: support IPv6 node registration
Allow IPv6 nodes to register with and query epmd. On systems with IPv6 support: * epmd listens on both the IPv4 and IPv6 ANY or loopback sockets * the epmd cli client connects to epmd over the IPv6 loopback * distributed nodes started with "-proto_dist inet6_tcp" will register with epmd over IPv6 To work on IPv6 capable systems that have IPv6 support disabled, epmd ignores errors opening the socket if the protocol is not supported. Similarly, the epmd client will fall back to IPv4 if the IPv6 socket is not available. Update the minimum supported version of Windows to Windows Vista to support IPv6.
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<p>Replaces the path specified in the boot script. See
<seealso marker="sasl:script">script(4)</seealso>.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[-proto_dist Proto]]></c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Specify a protocol for Erlang distribution.</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>inet_tcp</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>TCP over IPv4 (the default)</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>inet_tls</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>distribution over TLS/SSL</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>inet6_tcp</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>TCP over IPv6</p>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
+ <p>For example, to start up IPv6 distributed nodes:</p>
+<pre>
+% <input>erl -name [email protected] -proto_dist inet6_tcp</input>
+</pre>
+ </item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-remsh Node]]></c></tag>
<item>
<p>Starts Erlang with a remote shell connected to <c><![CDATA[Node]]></c>.</p>