Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:45:40 -0800 (PST) From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, <net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: misc/44361: possible raw socket bug Message-ID: <20030118214247.E43061-100000@gateway.posi.net> In-Reply-To: <20030118210814.GY33821@elvis.mu.org>
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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> It appears that we expect the ip_len and ip_off feilds to be sent
> in host byte order as the stack will fix it to network byte order
> in ip_output.
>
> Is this a bug or feature? :)
>
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
Both, no? :) It's a bug documented in Stevens TCP/IP Illustrated 2 as
being around since 4.4BSD, but I would expect that fixing it would break a
good bit. On the other hand, it is supposedly fixed in OpenBSD.
Kelly
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