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From: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
To: "ext jpo234@netscape.net" <jpo234@netscape.net>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sending complete IPv6 packets without bypassing netfilter/IPsec
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:56:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901161256.15744.remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CB45DED3262281-2F30-8C9@webmail-stg-d07.sysops.aol.com>

On Friday 16 January 2009 12:46:30 ext jpo234@netscape.net, you wrote:
> Herbert,
> sorry for bothering you (and everybody else on the list) again. It
> seems that the stack does not replace a "::" source address with a real
> one when using a PF_INET6/SOCK_RAW/IPPROTO_RAW socket the way it does
> with an IP_HDRINCL IPv4 socket for "0.0.0.0". Do I have to fill this
> one myself

Yes. That's the _whole_ point of writing the header yourself.

> or is there another trick to achieve this?

Use transport-layer raw sockets and let the kernel do the network header.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
Maemo Software, Nokia Devices R&D


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-16 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-15 13:15 Sending complete IPv6 packets without bypassing netfilter/IPsec jpo234
2009-01-15 23:54 ` Herbert Xu
2009-01-16  5:48   ` jpo234
2009-01-16  6:48     ` Herbert Xu
2009-01-16 10:28       ` jpo234
2009-01-16 10:46       ` jpo234
2009-01-16 10:56         ` Rémi Denis-Courmont [this message]
2009-01-16 11:12           ` jpo234
2009-01-16 14:09             ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-01-16 14:54               ` jpo234
2009-01-16 12:18 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-16 12:48   ` jpo234

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