[ace-users] question on ACE_INET_Addr

[Premkumar P]

hi,
   ACE VERSION: 5.5.8

    HOST MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows XP
        If on Windows based OS's, which version of WINSOCK do you
        use?: winsock2

    TARGET MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM, if different from HOST:
    COMPILER NAME AND VERSION (AND PATCHLEVEL):

    THE $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h FILE [if you use a link to a platform-
    specific file, simply state which one]: config-win32.h

    THE $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU FILE [if you
    use a link to a platform-specific file, simply state which one
    (unless this isn't used in this case, e.g., with Microsoft Visual
    C++)]:

    CONTENTS OF $ACE_ROOT/bin/MakeProjectCreator/config/default.features
    (used by MPC when you generate your own makefiles): ssl = 1, ipv6 = 1

    AREA/CLASS/EXAMPLE AFFECTED:
[What example failed?  What module failed to compile?]
 none

    DOES THE PROBLEM AFFECT:
        COMPILATION? no
        LINKING?
            On Unix systems, did you run make realclean first? no
        EXECUTION? no
        OTHER (please specify)? ( question at bottom )
[Please indicate whether ACE, your application, or both are affected.]

    SYNOPSIS:
[Brief description of the problem]
  none

    DESCRIPTION:
  after building ACE with ipv6 support SOCK_Acceptor failed to work


    REPEAT BY:
[What you did to get the error; include test program or session
transcript if at all possible.  ]

    SAMPLE FIX/WORKAROUND:
[If available ]

here is what i am doing..

ACE_INET_Addr localaddr;
localaddr.set_port(portno);

SOCK_Acceptor acceptor;
acceptor.open(localaddr, ...);

every thing was working fine.. but when i recompiled ACE with ipv6 support
acceptor returns -1
stepping in the code i found that acceptor is not able able to open a socket
because the sock type is set to AF_INET6 and the machine i am running is not
comfigured for ipv6

here is my question:
it is an expected behaviour that ipv6 socket failed to open because the
machine is not configured for it. What should be done to make it work on
ipv4, ipv6 and ipv4-ipv6 environment.
>From the code i can see specifying AF_INET will use ipv4 specific storage
and using AF_INET6 uses ipv6 storage, is it possible to use both IPV4 and
IPV6 address on the machine ??

thankx in advance

regards,
prem
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