From: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <rdenis@simphalempin.com>
To: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question regarding (AF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_RAW) sockets
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:06:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803122006.49506.rdenis@simphalempin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803121834.29293.opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Le Wednesday 12 March 2008 18:34:29 Octavian Purdila, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that when using IPv6 raw sockets with IPPROTO_RAW protocol and
> IPV6_PKTINFO set, we are not allow to specify a source address that it is
> not configured in the system.
>
> Disabling ipv6_chk_addr in datagram_send_ctl for IPv6 raw sockets seems to
> fix our problem. Is this approach the right one?
I am a bit confused here. Why would you use IPV6_PKTINFO with a network-layer
raw socket? You have to write the IPv6 header anyway, so what useful
additional infos would you the ancillary data contain?
--
Rémi Denis-Courmont
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-12 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-12 16:34 question regarding (AF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_RAW) sockets Octavian Purdila
2008-03-12 18:06 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont [this message]
2008-03-12 23:02 ` Octavian Purdila
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