Socket IPV6/IPV4

[jimmies]

Hello All
I have a question regarding the way the socket are created in solaris.
to my knowledge a socket is uniquely identified by a 5-tuple.
So I can not have 2 socket (with same protocol,IPs) listening to the same port on the same server.
I noticed that I could create a socket with IPV6 to listen on port 8080(wildcard IP) and create a second socket with IPV4 to the same port (wildcard IP).
Is this behaviour expected? am I missing something?

 

[Annihilannic]

I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to do that. IPv4 and IPv6 are different protocols, after all.

Annihilannic.