sockaddr_storage

[Mark Atwood]

I prefer :ffff: tagged IPv6 addresses for IPv4 addresses.   No need for a
redundant flag.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 12:48 PM Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com> wrote:

> Yo Hal!
>
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:10:36 -0800
> Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>
> > All the MRU list needs is a flag to specify if the IP address
> > is 4 or 6, the address, and the port number.
>
> Or just use IPv4 addresses mapped into IPv6.  From wikipedia:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address
>
> You place the prefix an IPv4 address with ::ffff:
>
> 192.0.2.128 becomes ::ffff:c000:0280 also written as ::ffff:192.0.2.128
>
> RGDS
> GARY
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