Windows API Guide - Reference - Volume 1: Version 3.0 For the MS-DOS and PC-DOS Operating Systems

Type SOCKADDR sin_family As Integer sin_port As Integer sin_addr As Long sin_zero As String * 8 End Type

Description & Usage

The SOCKADDR structure stores information about a connection to make to a network host. For TCP/IP connections, this is essentially the IP address of the remote host and the port to connect to. Other base protocols may have different requirements for the data to load into the structure, although no matter what, the structure will always be 16 bytes long.

Visual Basic-Specific Issues

None.

Data Members

sin_family

The address family of the protocol to use. This will match the protocol used by the socket making the connection.

sin_port

The port number to connect to, in network byte order.

sin_addr

The IP address of the network host to connect to, in network byte order.

sin_zero

Padding data. If not using it, set all bytes to zero.

Used By

connect

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