Appendix F. Windows Sockets Changes for IPv6
This appendix includes information about changes that have been made to the Windows Sockets application programming interface (API) to support Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) applications, and it provides examples of how and when to use these changes in an application. It includes information about the following topics:
Added constants
Address data structures
Wildcard addresses
Core sockets functions
Name-to-address translation
Address-to-name translation
Address sorting
Address conversion functions
Socket options
New macros
Changes to Windows Sockets for IPv6 are defined in RFCs 3493 and 3542.
Additional details about how to modify applications so that they can use both IPv4 and IPv6 can be found in the “IPv6 ...
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