Dual Socket for Windows

Question

On Unix, you can use a single socket, used for both IPv6 and IPv4 (dual mode). In windows this is not supported. Does anyone have a solution to implement the same with the same socket for Windows.

Answer 1

Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb513665(VS.85).aspx :

Dual stack connectors

To support both IPv4 and IPv6 in Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2003, the application must create two sockets, one socket for use with IPv4 and one socket for use with IPv6 . These two sockets must be handled separately by the application.

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Answer 2

.NET Framework 4.5 .