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4/8/2010

In the Internet address family, this structure is used by Windows Sockets to specify a local or remote endpoint address to which to connect a socket. This structure is IPv6-specific.

Syntax 

struct sockaddr_in6 {
  short 
sin6_family;
  u_short 
sin6_port;
  u_long 
sin6_flowinfo;
  struct in6_addr 
sin6_addr;
  u_long 
sin6_scope_id;
};

Members

sin6_family

Address family; must be AF_INET6.

sin6_port

Transport-level port number

sin6_flowinfo

Ipv6 flow information.

sin6_addr

Ipv6 address.

sin6_scope_id

Set of interfaces for a scope.

Remarks

The IP address part of this structure is of type in6_addr.

If an application uses Windows Sockets 1.1 functions and requires IPv6 addresses, it may continue to use all the old functions that take the sockaddrstructure as one of the parameters ( bind (Windows Sockets), connect (Windows Sockets), sendto, recvfrom, accept (Windows Sockets), and so forth). The only change that is required is to use sockaddr_in6instead of sockaddr_in.

Requirements

Header ws2tcpip.h
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE .NET 4.1 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also