IPv6 Support

Description of Patch

This patch adds support for IPv6 to Motion.

The 'local' options, which before bound on localhost, now will bind on the appropriate localhost (127.0.0.1 or ::1) depending if IPv6 is available or not. Do note that multiple sockets are not supported, this would require a lot of code changes.

Refences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

Installation of Patch

Download the patch file. If it is packed as a gz or tar.gz unpack it first. Then copy it to the motion source directory and issue the command (assuming the patch file is called filename_of_patch_file.diff)

patch < filename_of_patch_file.diff

Then re-build Motion and test the patch.

Change History of Patch

• 1.0 Initial revision

Discussion and Comments

Hi Jeroen,

Thanks for your patch

Current stable version of motion is 3.2.9, so i think that could be better do it against svn version, so i'll take some time to do it.

-- AngelCarpintero - 31 Dec 2007

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I've commit to svn r344 some parts of your patch fixing some issues , but only to allow IPV4/IPV6 dual stack for webcam stream and http-control.

-- AngelCarpintero - 12 May 2008

I've compiled motion on jaunty and now it only binds to IPv6 and not IPv4 -- How do I get it to bind to IPv4?

-- RomanGaufman - 16 Apr 2009

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I presently have to run ifconfig lo inet6 del ::1/128 every time before I start motion to get motion to bind on IPv4 -- Any better solution?

-- RomanGaufman - 20 May 2009

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I can add a new config option to enable or disable IPV6 support.

-- AngelCarpintero - 19 Jul 2009

It's been six years, was this ever accepted? I'm running 3.2.12 and it looks like IPv6 support doesn't work.

-- BradKoehn - 08 Sep 2015

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It says ScheduledForVersion 3.3.0... I doubt that release will ever happen though.

-- SebastiaanL - 25 Oct 2015

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@AngelCarpintero dear mr.angel , Kinda new here. i have installed motion 3.2.12 on my raspberry , and it's great to work on IPV4 , but actually i want it to work on IPV6 , what step should i do now sir? just download the latest version of motion or just download this patch and then recompile the motion?

and maybe you can give me a link to download the patch , because i am little confuse with the explain above ,

-- AlfinSyuqra - 30 Aug 2017

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AngelCarpintero dear sir , how to download the patch sir , please help sir ,

thanks

-- AlfinSyuqra - 31 Aug 2017

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included already in svn trunk

• motion-ipv6.diff: Motion IPv6 Patch
• ipv6-enable.diff : Allow enable / disable IPV6 using new option config ipv6_enabled