IPV6_ADDRFORM(2const)

IPV6_ADDRFORM2const

Turn an af_inet6 socket into a socket of a different address family

Usage

#include <netinet/in.h>  /* Definition of IP* constants */
#include <sys/socket.h>

int setsockopt(int sockfd, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_ADDRFORM, &(const int){AF_INET}, sizeof(int));

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

Turn an AF_INET6 socket into a socket of a different address family.

Only AF_INET is currently supported for that.

It is allowed only for IPv6 sockets that are connected and bound to a v4-mapped-on-v6 address.

This is useful to pass v4-mapped sockets as file descriptors to programs that don't know how to deal with the IPv6 API.

Errors

See setsockopt(2). See ipv6(7).

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.