sockaddr_storage

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Jan 27 09:14:25 UTC 2017


fallenpegasus at gmail.com said:
> I prefer :ffff: tagged IPv6 addresses for IPv4 addresses.   No need for a
> redundant flag. 

I don't think that actually works.  We need to know if it really is an IPv4 
address or is an IPv4 address reached via IPv6.  Somebody has to switch the 
packet between IPv6 and IPv4.  We need to know if that is us or some 
router/gateway out on the internet.



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