From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
To: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <rdenis@simphalempin.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question regarding (AF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_RAW) sockets
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:02:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803130102.02366.opurdila@ixiacom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803122006.49506.rdenis@simphalempin.com>
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>
> 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?
Hi Rémi,
You are right. For some reason (the IPV4 case / man 7 raw) I though that
IPV6_PKTINFO is implied when using IPPROTO_RAW but I see now that it is not
required.
Thanks,
tavi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-12 23:01 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
2008-03-12 23:02 ` Octavian Purdila [this message]
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