include <netinet/in.h>
// All pointers to socket address structures are often cast to pointers
// to this type before use in various functions and system calls:
struct sockaddr {
unsigned short sa_family; // address family, AF_xxx
char sa_data[14]; // 14 bytes of protocol address
};
// IPv4 AF_INET sockets:
struct sockaddr_in {
short sin_family; // e.g. AF_INET, AF_INET6
unsigned short sin_port; // e.g. htons(3490)
struct in_addr sin_addr; // see struct in_addr, below
char sin_zero[8]; // zero this if you want to
};
struct in_addr {
unsigned long s_addr; // load with inet_pton()
};
// IPv6 AF_INET6 sockets:
struct sockaddr_in6 {
u_int16_t sin6_family; // address family, AF_INET6
u_int16_t sin6_port; // port number, Network Byte Order
u_int32_t sin6_flowinfo; // IPv6 flow information
struct in6_addr sin6_addr; // IPv6 address
u_int32_t sin6_scope_id; // Scope ID
};
struct in6_addr {
unsigned char s6_addr[16]; // load with inet_pton()
};
// General socket address holding structure, big enough to hold either
// struct sockaddr_in or struct sockaddr_in6 data:
struct sockaddr_storage {
sa_family_t ss_family; // address family
// all this is padding, implementation specific, ignore it:
char __ss_pad1[_SS_PAD1SIZE];
int64_t __ss_align;
char __ss_pad2[_SS_PAD2SIZE];
};
// IPv4:
struct sockaddr_in ip4addr;
int s;
ip4addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
ip4addr.sin_port = htons(3490);
inet_pton(AF_INET, "10.0.0.1", &ip4addr.sin_addr);
s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
bind(s, (struct sockaddr*)&ip4addr, sizeof ip4addr);
// IPv6:
struct sockaddr_in6 ip6addr;
int s;
ip6addr.sin6_family = AF_INET6;
ip6addr.sin6_port = htons(4950);
inet_pton(AF_INET6, "2001:db8:8714:3a90::12", &ip6addr.sin6_addr);
s = socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
bind(s, (struct sockaddr*)&ip6addr, sizeof ip6addr);
// IPv4 demo of inet_ntop() and inet_pton()
struct sockaddr_in sa;
char str[INET_ADDRSTRLEN];
// store this IP address in sa:
inet_pton(AF_INET, "192.0.2.33", &(sa.sin_addr));
// now get it back and print it
inet_ntop(AF_INET, &(sa.sin_addr), str, INET_ADDRSTRLEN);
printf("%s\n", str); // prints "192.0.2.33"
// IPv6 demo of inet_ntop() and inet_pton()
// (basically the same except with a bunch of 6s thrown around)
struct sockaddr_in6 sa;
char str[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN];
// store this IP address in sa:
inet_pton(AF_INET6, "2001:db8:8714:3a90::12", &(sa.sin6_addr));
// now get it back and print it
inet_ntop(AF_INET6, &(sa.sin6_addr), str, INET6_ADDRSTRLEN);
printf("%s\n", str); // prints "2001:db8:8714:3a90::12"
struct sockaddr_in antelope;
char *some_addr;
inet_aton("10.0.0.1", &antelope.sin_addr); // store IP in antelope
some_addr = inet_ntoa(antelope.sin_addr); // return the IP
printf("%s\n", some_addr); // prints "10.0.0.1"
// and this call is the same as the inet_aton() call, above:
antelope.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("10.0.0.1");