Locally listen on IPv4 and IPv6 addresses #788
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What type of PR is this?
/kind feature
What this PR does / Why we need it:
Implemented the
DualStackLocalSocket
as a small newtype for IPv6 sockets that are configured to be able to send and receive ipv6 and ipv4 traffic on all platforms for the locally listening socket.Updated the code base and docs and fixed several issues that existed for handling IPv6 addresses in the code base, including updates to the Firewall filter to be able to better manage ipv4 + ipv6 combo rule sets.
Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Closes #666
Special notes for your reviewer:
Updated the
test_utils
framework to provide coverage in tests for both ipv4 and ipv6 by allowing for either an IPv4 or IPv6 address to be created from the framework.