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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