I agree. I think, though, that the best argument presented in the

debate was from Paul Vixie, who wanted INET to be the name covering
both IPV4 and IPV6.  The following kit makes the needed changes:

Tom Ivar Helbekkmo

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/utils/inet.h b/src/include/utils/inet.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5b5546ffbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/include/utils/inet.h
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * builtins.h--
+ *	  Declarations for operations on built-in types.
+ *
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
+ *
+ * $Id: inet.h,v 1.1 1998/10/08 00:19:45 momjian Exp $
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+#ifndef MAC_H
+#define MAC_H
+
+/*
+ *	This is the internal storage format for IP addresses:
+ */
+
+typedef struct
+{
+	unsigned char family;
+	unsigned char bits;
+	union
+	{
+		unsigned int	ipv4_addr;	/* network byte order */
+		/* add IPV6 address type here */
+	}			addr;
+}			inet_struct;
+
+typedef struct varlena inet;
+
+/*
+ *	This is the internal storage format for MAC addresses:
+ */
+typedef struct macaddr
+{
+	unsigned char a;
+	unsigned char b;
+	unsigned char c;
+	unsigned char d;
+	unsigned char e;
+	unsigned char f;
+}			macaddr;
+
+
+typedef struct manufacturer
+{
+	unsigned char a;
+	unsigned char b;
+	unsigned char c;
+	char	   *name;
+} manufacturer;
+
+extern manufacturer manufacturers[];
+
+#endif	 /* MAC_H */
+