tnt uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)

tnt uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)

[f5ibh]

Hi,

Nov  1 12:09:12 debian-f5ibh kernel: tnt uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)

I got often this message, it is harmless (seems to be). What does it means ?

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Regards
		jean-luc
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Re: tnt uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)

[Tigran Aivazian]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, f5ibh wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Nov  1 12:09:12 debian-f5ibh kernel: tnt uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)
> 
> I got often this message, it is harmless (seems to be). What does it means ?

it means it uses old support for PACKET sockets in PF_INET protocol
family, i.e. a call like socket(PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET,0) instead of the
special protocol family for this purpose called PF_PACKET. If you truss
tcpdump you will see something like this:

socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)        = 3

which answers why you no longer get messages like "tcpdump uses
obsolete..." i.e. new tcpdump (as of a few years ago) does the right thing
(while your tnt, whatever that might be, doesn't).

Regards,
Tigran


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Re: tnt uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)

[Brian F. G. Bidulock]

f5ibh,

It means that it should be opening a PF_PACKET socket (see packet(7))
instead of a PF_INET, SOCK_PACKET (see COMPATIBILITY ip(7)):

    "For compatibility with Linux 2.0, the obsolete socket(PF_INET,
     SOCK_RAW, protocol) syntax is still supported to open a
     packet(7) socket.  This is deprecated and should be replaced by
     socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, protocol) instead.  The main
     difference is the new sockaddr_ll address structure for generic
     link layer information instead of sockaddr_pkt." - ip(7)

--Brian

On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, f5ibh wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Nov  1 12:09:12 debian-f5ibh kernel: tnt uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)
> 
> I got often this message, it is harmless (seems to be). What does it means ?
> 
> ---
> Regards
> 		jean-luc
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