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>If it is defined as protocol independend it doesn't belong into a
>protocol dependend header.
>E.g. I don't want to include netinet/in.h in an IPv6 only application.

Tough.  <netinet6/in6.h> is an implementation artifact; the standard
place to get IPv6-related stuff (e.g. sockaddr_in6) is <netinet/in.h> .

  Bill

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