diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/arpa/inet.h b/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/arpa/inet.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 96b6984383..0000000000
--- a/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/arpa/inet.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
- * Copyright (c) 2020 Dmitry Kozlyuk
- */
-
-#ifndef _ARPA_INET_H_
-#define _ARPA_INET_H_
-
-/**
- * @file
- *
- * Compatibility header
- *
- * Although symbols declared here are present on Windows,
- * including <winsock2.h> would expose too much macros breaking common code.
- */
-
-#include <netinet/in.h>
-#include <sys/socket.h>
-
-/* defined in ws2_32.dll */
-__attribute__((stdcall))
-int
-inet_pton(int af, const char *src, void *dst);
-
-/* defined in ws2_32.dll */
-__attribute__((stdcall))
-const char *
-inet_ntop(int af, const void *src, char *dst, socklen_t size);
-
-#endif /* _ARPA_INET_H_ */
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/netinet/in.h b/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/netinet/in.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 6455b9ba51..0000000000
--- a/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/netinet/in.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
- * Copyright 2020 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd
- */
-
-#ifndef _IN_H_
-#define _IN_H_
-
-#include <stdint.h>
-#include <sys/socket.h>
-
-#define IPPROTO_IP         0
-#define IPPROTO_HOPOPTS    0
-#define IPPROTO_ICMP       1
-#define IPPROTO_IPIP       4
-#define IPPROTO_TCP        6
-#define IPPROTO_UDP       17
-#define IPPROTO_IPV6      41
-#define IPPROTO_ROUTING   43
-#define IPPROTO_FRAGMENT  44
-#define IPPROTO_GRE       47
-#define IPPROTO_ESP       50
-#define IPPROTO_AH        51
-#define IPPROTO_ICMPV6    58
-#define IPPROTO_NONE      59
-#define IPPROTO_DSTOPTS   60
-#define IPPROTO_SCTP     132
-
-#define INET6_ADDRSTRLEN 46
-
-struct in_addr {
-	uint32_t s_addr;
-};
-
-struct in6_addr {
-	uint8_t s6_addr[16];
-};
-
-#endif
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/netinet/ip.h b/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/netinet/ip.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 2126498797..0000000000
--- a/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/netinet/ip.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
- * Copyright 2020 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd
- */
-
-#ifndef _IP_H_
-#define _IP_H_
-
-#define IPVERSION 4
-
-#endif
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/sys/socket.h b/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/sys/socket.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 9536cf8e62..0000000000
--- a/lib/librte_eal/windows/include/sys/socket.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
- * Copyright (c) 2020 Dmitry Kozlyuk
- */
-
-#ifndef _SYS_SOCKET_H_
-#define _SYS_SOCKET_H_
-
-/**
- * @file
- *
- * Compatibility header
- *
- * Although symbols declared here are present on Windows,
- * including <winsock2.h> would expose too much macros breaking common code.
- */
-
-#include <stddef.h>
-
-#define AF_INET  2
-#define AF_INET6 23
-
-typedef size_t socklen_t;
-
-#endif /* _SYS_SOCKET_H_ */
diff --git a/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h b/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h
index 060b63fc9b..a303c24a8c 100644
--- a/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h
+++ b/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h
@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@ extern "C" {
 #include <rte_mbuf.h>
 #include <rte_byteorder.h>
 
-#ifdef RTE_EXEC_ENV_WINDOWS /* Workaround conflict with rte_ether_hdr. */
-#undef s_addr /* Defined in winsock2.h included in windows.h. */
-#endif
-
 #define RTE_ETHER_ADDR_LEN  6 /**< Length of Ethernet address. */
 #define RTE_ETHER_TYPE_LEN  2 /**< Length of Ethernet type field. */
 #define RTE_ETHER_CRC_LEN   4 /**< Length of Ethernet CRC. */
@@ -257,16 +253,34 @@ __rte_experimental
 int
 rte_ether_unformat_addr(const char *str, struct rte_ether_addr *eth_addr);
 
+/* Windows Sockets headers contain `#define s_addr S_un.S_addr`.
+ * Temporarily disable this macro to avoid conflict at definition.
+ * Place source MAC address in both `s_addr` and `S_un.S_addr` fields,
+ * so that access works either directly or through the macro.
+ */
+#pragma push_macro("s_addr")
+#ifdef s_addr
+#undef s_addr
+#endif
+
 /**
  * Ethernet header: Contains the destination address, source address
  * and frame type.
  */
 struct rte_ether_hdr {
 	struct rte_ether_addr d_addr; /**< Destination address. */
-	struct rte_ether_addr s_addr; /**< Source address. */
-	uint16_t ether_type;      /**< Frame type. */
+	RTE_STD_C11
+	union {
+		struct rte_ether_addr s_addr; /**< Source address. */
+		struct {
+			struct rte_ether_addr S_addr;
+		} S_un; /**< Do not use directly; use s_addr instead.*/
+	};
+	uint16_t ether_type; /**< Frame type. */
 } __rte_aligned(2);
 
+#pragma pop_macro("s_addr")
+
 /**
  * Ethernet VLAN Header.
  * Contains the 16-bit VLAN Tag Control Identifier and the Ethernet type
diff --git a/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h b/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
index f8a08deed5..6c9904698a 100644
--- a/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
+++ b/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
@@ -17,10 +17,25 @@
 
 #include <stdint.h>
 
+#ifndef RTE_EXEC_ENV_WINDOWS
+
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
 #include <netinet/in.h>
 #include <netinet/ip.h>
 
+#else
+
+#include <ws2tcpip.h>
+
+#ifdef RTE_BUILD_INTERNAL
+#define IPVERSION	4   /* missing from Windows SDK */
+#define IPPROTO_IPIP	4   /* missing from Windows SDK and MinGW */
+#define IPPROTO_GRE	47  /* ditto */
+#define IPPROTO_SCTP	132 /* missing from MinGW */
+#endif
+
+#endif /* RTE_EXEC_ENV_WINDOWS */
+
 #include <rte_byteorder.h>
 #include <rte_mbuf.h>
 
