Thread: Address family not supported by protocol

When I tried to do a send to, I got the following error:

Address family not supported by protocol

below is part of my code:

Code:

 rlen = recvfrom(recv_s,f,sizeof(Frame),0,(struct sockaddr*)&client,&client_len);
	if (rlen < 0) {
	    perror("Error: recv failed");
	    exit(1);
	}



if (sendto(recv_s,ack_f,sizeof(Frame),0,(struct sockaddr *)&client,sizeof(client)) != rlen) {
		perror("Error: Sending message failed");
		close(recv_s);
		close(send_s);
		exit(1);
	}

basically the client information is filled from the recvfrom... but I don't know why when it tries to send it back it gives that error

hmm.. here's what I've done so far.. I tried to print what the sin_family of client after the call to recvfrom and it gives me some huge number... I think it's supposed to be 2 right for AF_INET? So why is it not getting 2 there... weird

I've indirectly specified the AF_INET family and it doesn't complain again now, though now I don't think that it's sending to the correct place... although I've specified the port number as well