I can see why you were confused by that post - so am I, reading it again. IP addresses fit into 32 bits, not 64 bits. That's what IPv6 is about.

The recompile is a real pain for two reasons - one is that I don't like recompiling ( I use Debian. If I wanted to compile something, I would have installed Gentoo). The other is for my potential users - I doubt they'll be running Gentoo either.

I did get by using byte strings, but now I'm being shot in the butt by packing and memory alignment issues. I think this is the time where I convert from perl to C. Sigh. I can see why C is still so strong. You compile it, and then it works. If it don't compile, it don't work. Unlike perl where it can compile and run for a while before blowing up.

Thx for the interest, and the relevant manpage snippet. I assure you I searched, I just missed that bit of it.

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