Monks,

Since I now have a working TCP client and server running I am looking to incorporate IPv6 into my work. I'm not quite sure how to go about this. I am using the standard Perl Cookbook to make my servers and clients, basically with IO::Socket::INET 

$server = IO::Socket::INET->new(LocalAddr  => "$localHost:$socket_port
+",
                                       Proto      => $protocol,
                                       Reuse      => 1,
                                       Listen     => $conn)
        or die "Can't make $protocol server on port $socket_port: $@\n
+";
       print "Running on port $socket_port.\n" if $verbose;

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So if am looking to incorporate Socket6 into my program, to have a different IP version get built, can I still use this code to generate it? Would I just need to import Socket6 in an instance that I need IPv6? I know in C you need to use AF_INET6 instead of AF_INET, but I can't quite figure out how to do this with Socket6.

I got directed to Socket6 in trying to search for IPv6 clients or servers, haven't found much in the way of examples for what I need to do yet. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

In reply to Getting IPv6 with the Cookbook by gokuraku

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