Re: AF_INET6 sockets and IPv4 connections, etc.

2011-01-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 1/11/11 8:25 PM, Jerry James wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com mailto:philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: so how can I tell in a couple of lines of code if the connection will result in IPv4? I'm not entirely sure

AF_INET6 sockets and IPv4 connections, etc.

2011-01-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
Hi. I'm working on a patch to support QoS setting on an IPv4 connection, but I'm being out-clevered by the kernel. The code is doing the following: s = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM); ... sin6.sin6_family = AF_INET6; sin6.sin6_addr = ... // :::IPv4 address and then, as the man page says:

Re: AF_INET6 sockets and IPv4 connections, etc.

2011-01-11 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: so how can I tell in a couple of lines of code if the connection will result in IPv4? I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about. What software are you attempting to patch, for example? But