readme-ip

tinyos-2.x.rar

 @title IP data-structure documentation
 @author Stephen Dawson-Haggerty
 @release public
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The ip-stack provides a bare IP datagram interface to the network
layer; this is documented in comments in the code.

For the purposes of socket programming, two data structures are most
important.  The 'struct sockaddr_in6' and the 'struct in6_addr'.  They
are substantially shared with the linux/bsd versions, and reproduced
below.

struct in6_addr
  {
    union
      {
	uint8_t	u6_addr8[16];
	uint16_t u6_addr16[8];
	uint32_t u6_addr32[4];
      } in6_u;
#define s6_addr			in6_u.u6_addr8
#define s6_addr16		in6_u.u6_addr16
#define s6_addr32		in6_u.u6_addr32
  };

struct sockaddr_in6 {
  uint16_t sin6_port;
  struct in6_addr sin6_addr;
};

void inet_pton6(char *addr, struct in6_addr *dest);

Usage
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 Example 1: Suppose we want to setup a sockaddr_in6 to point to ff02::5, port 10000:
 {
   struct sockaddr_in6 sa6;
   inet_pton6("ff02::5", &sa6.sin6_addr);
   sa6.sin6_port = htons(10000);
 }

 Example 2: Do the same thing, but without the overhead of storing and
  parsing the string address representation.
 {
   struct sockaddr_in6 sa6;
   memset(&sa6, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6));
   sa6.sin6_addr.s6_addr16[0] = htons(0xff02);
   sa6.sin6_addr.s6_addr[15] = 5;
   sa6.sin6_port = htons(10000);
 }

 This code is very unix-y; the second example will work on *nix's.