diff --git a/examples/nvme/identify/identify.c b/examples/nvme/identify/identify.c
index f3f45eec8..f36e75673 100644
--- a/examples/nvme/identify/identify.c
+++ b/examples/nvme/identify/identify.c
@@ -912,6 +912,7 @@ parse_args(int argc, char **argv)
 			break;
 		case 'a':
 			trid.trtype = SPDK_NVME_TRANSPORT_RDMA;
+			trid.adrfam = SPDK_NVMF_ADRFAM_IPV4;
 			snprintf(trid.traddr, sizeof(trid.traddr), "%s", optarg);
 			break;
 		case 's':
diff --git a/examples/nvme/perf/perf.c b/examples/nvme/perf/perf.c
index 4578ec040..ef38290b7 100644
--- a/examples/nvme/perf/perf.c
+++ b/examples/nvme/perf/perf.c
@@ -1072,6 +1072,7 @@ register_controllers(void)
 			return 0;
 		}
 		trid.trtype = SPDK_NVME_TRANSPORT_RDMA;
+		trid.adrfam = SPDK_NVMF_ADRFAM_IPV4;
 
 		p = (char *)p1 + 1;
 		p1 = strchr(p, ':');
diff --git a/include/spdk/nvme.h b/include/spdk/nvme.h
index 500c424b4..6e94bcb0a 100644
--- a/include/spdk/nvme.h
+++ b/include/spdk/nvme.h
@@ -141,6 +141,13 @@ struct spdk_nvme_transport_id {
 	 */
 	enum spdk_nvme_transport_type trtype;
 
+	/**
+	 * Address family of the transport address.
+	 *
+	 * For PCIe, this value is ignored.
+	 */
+	enum spdk_nvmf_adrfam adrfam;
+
 	/**
 	 * Transport address of the NVMe-oF endpoint. For transports which use IP
 	 * addressing (e.g. RDMA), this should be an IP address. For PCIe, this
diff --git a/lib/nvme/nvme_rdma.c b/lib/nvme/nvme_rdma.c
index ac7de08ab..0d37edf89 100644
--- a/lib/nvme/nvme_rdma.c
+++ b/lib/nvme/nvme_rdma.c
@@ -1133,6 +1133,8 @@ nvme_rdma_ctrlr_scan(const struct spdk_nvme_transport_id *discovery_trid,
 			continue;
 		}
 
+		trid.adrfam = entry->adrfam;
+
 		/* Ensure that subnqn is null terminated. */
 		end = memchr(entry->subnqn, '\0', SPDK_NVMF_NQN_MAX_LEN);
 		if (!end) {