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Date:      Tue, 2 Sep 2003 23:50:06 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        "millarkav@yahoo.com" <millarkav@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UDP Socket Options
Message-ID:  <20030902225006.GN1417@spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030902224333.19060.qmail@web41101.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030902224333.19060.qmail@web41101.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:43:33PM -0700, millarkav@yahoo.com wrote:
> FreeBSD ought to add per-socket socket options to
> allow a programmer to turn  on and off the don't
> fragment bit for UDP and the UDP checksum, on a per
> socket basis.

Why? Sure, it would be easy enough to do, but why exactly do you need this?

Rewriting traceroute without recourse to SOCK_RAW is one possible use
that springs to mind. But can you elaborate?

BMS



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