IPv6 support

Availability

IPv6 support is available in the following platforms:

• Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista, using Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 SP1
• Symbian
• On Linux/Unix/MacOS X with GNU development systems, IPv6 features are detected by the ./configure script.

Note about Windows 2000:

• Windows 2000 does not have IPv6 installed, but it may be added by installing ​Microsoft IPv6 Technology Preview for Windows 2000 (IPv6Kit). This software was designed to work for Win2K SP1 and SP2, however there is an information on how to install IPv6Kit on Win2K SP4, please see ​IPv6 FAQ.
• Even with IPv6Kit installed, pjsip still would NOT run normally because the Win2K's IPHLPAPI.DLL does not support enumerating IPv6 interfaces. Because of this, pjsip would always return the loopback interface ("::1") as the host's IPv6 address, unless a specific IPv6 address is specified when creating the transports.

IPv6 is NOT supported by Platform SDK that comes with Microsoft Visual Studio 6. To use Visual Studio 6, you must install and download the newer Platform SDK above. Please see ​PJSIP Getting Started Guide on how to configure VS6 with newer Platform SDK.

IPv6 Support in pjlib

The work for adding IPv6 support in pjlib is documented by ticket #415.

pjlib supports IPv6, but for now this has to be enabled in pj/config_site.h:

 #define PJ_HAS_IPV6 1

Socket Addresses:

• An IPv4 socket address is represented by pj_sockaddr_in structure, while an IPv6 socket address is represented by pj_sockaddr_in6 structure. The pj_sockaddr is a union which may contain IPv4 or IPv6 socket address, depending on the address family field.
• Various new socket address API's have been added which can work on both IPv4 and IPv6 address, such as:
  • pj_inet_pton()
  • pj_inet_ntop()
  • pj_inet_ntop2()
  • pj_sockaddr_init()
  • pj_sockaddr_get_addr()
  • pj_sockaddr_has_addr()
  • pj_sockaddr_get_addr_len()
  • pj_sockaddr_set_str_addr()
  • pj_sockaddr_get_port()
  • pj_sockaddr_set_port()
  • pj_sockaddr_get_len()

Socket and IOQueue API:

• The pj_sockaddr structure is a union which may contain IPv4 or IPv6 socket address. Application may pass this structure to various pjlib socket functions which take pj_sockaddr_t as an argument, such as pj_sock_bind(), pj_sock_sendto(), pj_sock_recvfrom(), pj_sock_accept(), etc.
• The ioqueue also supports IPv6 sockets.

Address Resolution API:

• A new API pj_getaddrinfo() has been added to resolve both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, in addition to existing pj_gethostbyname() API which resolves IPv4 address.
• The pj_gethostip() and pj_getdefaultipinterface() API has been modified to take an additional address family argument.

IP Helper API:

• The pj_enum_ip_interface() API has been modified to take an additional address family argument.

IPv6 Support in pjsip

The work for adding IPv6 support in pjlib is documented by ticket #421.

IPv6 SIP Transport:

• The SIP UDP transport now supports IPv6 sockets, and new API's have been added to facilitate IPv6 transport creation (pjsip_udp_transport_start6() and pjsip_udp_transport_attach2()). Note that if application wants to support both IPv4 and IPv6 UDP transports, two separate UDP transport instances must be created, one for each address family.

IPv6 Address Representation:

• IPv6 address may appear in two types of places in the SIP message: in a host part of a header field (such as host part of an URI, or host part in a Via header), and as a parameter value (such as the value of received and maddr parameter).
• Although in the SIP ABNF grammar an IPv6 may or may not be enclosed in square brackets ([ and ] characters), in pjsip all IPv6 addresses will be represented without the square brackets, for consistency. This means pjsip will remove the square brackets, if they are present, during parsing process, and will enclose the address with square brackets as necessary when pjsip prints the Ipv6 address in a packet for transmission. When application inspects a message component that contains IPv6 address, it will always find it without the enclosing brackets.

IPv6 Support in pjlib-util (DNS SRV and AAAA resolution)

To be done.

The work for adding IPv6 support in pjlib-util is documented by ticket #419.

IPv6 Support in pjmedia (SDP, media transport)

The work for adding IPv6 support in pjmedia is documented by ticket #420.

The SDP representation has been updated to support IPv6 address, and the UDP media transport now also supports IPv6 sockets. There have been some incompatible changes introduced in pjmedia:

• the rtp_addr_name and rtcp_addr_name fields in pjmedia_sock_info structure (which describes the media transport address information) has been changed to use pj_sockaddr union rather than pj_sockaddr_in structure which is specific to IPv4,
• the rem_addr and rem_rtcp fields in pjmedia_stream_info also have been changed to use pj_sockaddr union.

IPv6 Support in pjnath (STUN and ICE)

To be done.

The work for adding IPv6 support in pjnath is documented by ticket #422.