References Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, "A practice of programming" "POSIX Programmer's Guide", O'reilly RFC2553/3493 draft-cmetz-v6ops-v4mapped-api-harmful-01.txt draft-itojun-v6ops-v4mapped-harmful-02.txt ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/ http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/ Rich Stevens, "Unix network programming 2nd ed" Don't read IPv6 sections, as it is based on older RFC RFC2292/3542 if you are trying to implement ping/traceroute or something alike Hagino, "IPv6 network programming", ASCII