IPV6_RECVPKTINFO not working for IPv4-mapped addresses on Linux?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 05:10:17PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 22/01/2014 16:54, Francis Dupont wrote:
> >  - there is no standard/portable way to do this without the one
> >   socket per address in IPv4 (if you need an argument, just ask what
> >   this discussion is about :-)
> 
> i thought recvfrom() fixed this issue?  Forgive me if I'm wrong here - it's
> been far too long since I've done any socket related stuff.

recvfrom() will give you the source address of the packet, but not
the destination address (*your* address where you received the packet
on).  

recvmsg() will give that to you, but the interface for IPv4 is system 
dependent, and I'm fairly sure, "not present everywhere bind runs".

RFC 2292 / 3542 talk about the socket API extentions to get IPv6 destination
addresses (IPV6_RECVPKTINFO), so with that and a bit of source code reading,
you can figure out how it works for IPv4 (I haven't found actual docs for
that yet).

Gert Doering
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