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From: "Zheng, Jeff" <jeff.zheng@intel.com>
To: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ????" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Why size of sockaddr smaller than size of sockaddr_in6?
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:00:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37FBBA5F3A361C41AB7CE44558C3448E011959C7@pdsmsx403.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)

Hello Hideaki YOSHIFUJI,

Thanks for your reply. 

Is sockaddr_storage part of IPv6? I mean, does sockaddr_storage exist in a system that does not have IPv6? In such system if I use sockaddr_in6, the compile will be failed because there is no sockaddr_in6 structure. 

> Thanks
> Jeff                        Jeff.Zheng@intel.com
> BTW, I speak for myself, not for Intel Corp.


-----Original Message-----
From: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI [mailto:yoshfuji@cerberus.hongo.wide.ad.jp]On Behalf Of yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:24 AM
To: Zheng, Jeff
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why size of sockaddr smaller than size of sockaddr_in6?


Hello.

In article <37FBBA5F3A361C41AB7CE44558C3448E07EC27@pdsmsx403.ccr.corp.intel.com> (at Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:04:05 +0800), "Zheng, Jeff" <jeff.zheng@intel.com> says:

> I thought that sockaddr should hold sockaddr_in sockaddr_in6 and any other socket address (or at least sockaddr_in6). 

No, we do not change sockaddr{}.
use sockaddr_storage{} for that purpose.
Please read RFC 3493.

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Hideaki YOSHIFUJI @ USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
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2003-11-07  3:00 Zheng, Jeff [this message]
2003-11-07  3:52 ` Why size of sockaddr smaller than size of sockaddr_in6? YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
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2003-11-07  2:04 Zheng, Jeff
2003-11-07  2:23 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明

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