Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:55:10 +0900 From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> To: Donald McLachlan <don@mainframe.dgrc.crc.ca> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 multicast sendto() 'operation not supported' Message-ID: <y7vsmgxjkoh.wl@ocean.jinmei.org> In-Reply-To: <200402261627.i1QGRVT02174@janus.dgrc.crc.ca> References: <200402261627.i1QGRVT02174@janus.dgrc.crc.ca>
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>>>>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:27:31 -0500 (EST),
>>>>> Donald McLachlan <don@mainframe.dgrc.crc.ca> said:
> In preparation for writing an IPv6 multicast application I wrote a little
> test program (shown below). This program worked on linux (RedHat), but
> when I try it on a FreeBSD box (5.0, running zebra router and pim6dd)
> sendto() fails with "Operation not supported" ... ???
> To verify my app was OK, I installed a solaris box on the LAN beside the
> linux box and the app compiled and worked fine.
> Thinking it might be a bug in 5.0 or an interaction with zebra/pim6dd I
> installed a FreeBSD 5.2 box on the lan beside the other 2 app boxes and
> I get the same error again. Anyone know what is missing/wrong in my test app?
> [ I'm guessing FreeBSD wants some extra socket options set, but I don't know
> which ones. ]
Did your code really succeed the bind(2) call in the main function?
> bzero((char *)&sin, (int)sizeof(sin)); /* setup address info */
> bcopy(the_addr, (char *)&sin.sin6_addr, sizeof(the_addr));
> sin.sin6_family = AF_INET6;
> sin.sin6_port = htons(3000);
> /* bind addr to sock */
> if(bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&sin, sizeof(sin)) < 0)
> {
> perror("bind");
> exit(errno);
> }
FreeBSD should require a valid sin6_len (which should be
sizeof(sockaddr_in6)), so the program should have stopped here.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
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