On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:10:30AM +0900, JINMEI Tatuya / [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]@C#:H wrote:
[...]
> One important point is, however, that a portable applications should
> not assume such internal details.  So, for example, it should be
> generally discouraged for an application to get access to the
> __u6_addrXX members directly or to assume the internal data is aligned
> at some particular boundary.

Right, as I read the RFC, the only thing you can assume is

      struct in6_addr {
          uint8_t  s6_addr[16];      /* IPv6 address */
      };

So portable applications generally can use the s6_addr if they need.

Stig
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