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From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: Jens Rosenboom <jens@mcbone.net>
Cc: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV6_RTHDR with a type-0 routing header
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:00:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090820130009.GA22183@uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250772824.9489.3.camel@fnki-nb00130>

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 02:53:44PM +0200, Jens Rosenboom wrote:
>> It looks like I can use destination options instead, but those don't seem to
>> be too easy to use either. The kernel seems to demand that I put eight bytes
>> of padding at the end?
>> 
>>   #define ipv6_optlen(p)  (((p)->hdrlen+1) << 3)
>> 
>> Why the +1? 
> Because that matches the definition of the hdrlen field in RFC2460.

Hm, in that case I guess it's glibc that has one too much indeed (I never
write this field).

>> FWIW, the program I try to run is at http://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/v6fun.c .
>> If I replace "len" in the setsockopt call by "len + 8", the program runs and
>> the packets get the right option attached -- but also eight padding bytes.
> ERROR 404: Not Found.

Sorry, http://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/v6opt.c

/* Steinar */
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-20 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20 11:11 IPV6_RTHDR with a type-0 routing header Steinar H. Gunderson
2009-08-20 11:29 ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-08-20 11:29 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-08-20 12:18   ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2009-08-20 12:39     ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2009-08-20 12:53       ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-08-20 13:00         ` Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2009-08-20 13:11           ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2009-08-21  1:09 ` Shan Wei

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