How to set sockaddr_in6::sin6_addr byte order to network byte order?

The s6_addr member of struct in6_addr is defined as:

uint8_t s6_addr[16];

Since it is an array of uint8_t, rather than being a single 128-bit integer type, the issue of endianness does not arise: you simply copy from your source uint8_t [16] array to the destination. For example, to copy in the address 2001:888:0:2:0:0:0:2 you would use:

static const uint8_t myaddr[16] = { 0x20, 0x01, 0x08, 0x88, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02 };

memcpy(addr.sin6_addr.s6_addr, myaddr, sizeof myaddr);