[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> - Section 5.1, 5.5: why not use sockaddr_storage instead of explicitly
> storing address family and a union of in_addr, in6_addr?
I think the field is used to store an IP address. A
sockaddr_storage is used to store a socket address,
which also contains things other than the IP address.
In fact, it is large enough to store all types of socket
address with the proper alignment. Is there a particular
reason why it is preferred to be used to store a single
IP address?
> At the
> very least, you can typedef a new type that contains
> typedef struct vrrp_addr {
> int vrrp_af;
> union {
> struct in_addr in4_u;
> struct in6_addr in6_u;
> } vrrp_ip_addr
> };
> instead of duplicating this.
I think this is a better idea than using sockaddr_storage.
--
K. Poon.
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