[httperf] IPv6 support?

[Rick Jones]

Sérgio Gomes wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I've set up a small server farm, and I'd like to test it with httperf. 
> Unfortunately, the whole intranet it's built upon works exclusively with 
> IPv6. I haven't found any indication of IPv6 support in the httperf 
> documentation, but I haven't found any otherwise information either.
> 
> So my question is, does httperf support IPv6, and if not, is there any 
> similar tool that does?

One of the first things I would check would be whether the source code 
makes calls to gethostbyname(), or if it makes calls to getaddrinfo(). 
Calls to getaddrinfo() would be a necessary (generally) but not 
sufficient condition for IPv6 support.

Next I would see if the source uses something like sockaddr_storage 
instead of sockaddr_in, the former being a positive IPv6-capable indication.

rick jones