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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 is the form of the sockaddrstructure specific to the Internet address family and can be cast to sockaddr.

Syntax 

struct sockaddr_in{
  short 
sin_family;
  unsigned short 
sin_port;
  IN_ADDR 
sin_addr;
  char 
sin_zero[8];
};

Members

sin_family

Address family; must be AF_INET.

sin_port

Internet Protocol (IP) port.

sin_addr

IP address in network byte order.

sin_zero

Padding to make structure the same size as SOCKADDR.

Remarks

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

Requirements

Header winsock2.h
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 1.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also