From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: jpo234@netscape.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sending complete IPv6 packets without bypassing netfilter/IPsec
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:18:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocy7e95w.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CB452A85703FEF-9E4-FEB@FWM-M04.sysops.aol.com> (jpo234@netscape.net's message of "Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:15:50 -0500")
jpo234@netscape.net writes:
> Hello all,
> the IPv4 socket interface had the nifty IP_HDRINCL option. It seems
> that an IPv6 version of this option is not available. The proposed
> solution for this seems to be to use libpcap to inject the
> packet. Unfortunately this completely bypasses both, netfilter and
> IPsec. So, am I lost or is there a way to do what I want/need?
The theory is (the same on IPv4) is that the socket options should
allow you to specify everything legal you could put into a IPv6 header
by hand.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-16 12:19 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
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 [this message]
2009-01-16 12:48 ` jpo234
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