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Date:      Sat, 11 Jul 1998 14:01:16 PDT
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        "Jason K. Fritcher" <jkf@wolfnet.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Raw sockets & ICMP 
Message-ID:  <199807112101.OAA21311@mango.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jul 1998 23:31:04 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980709231805.13999B-100000@outreach.wolfnet.org> 

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As far as I can tell, the design of raw sockets was kind of ad-hoc,
so I wouldn't necessarily call it "intentional".  The idea is that
you would use a raw socket to provide services that the kernel
doesn't, so there's no need to send the messages that the kernel
has already handled to a raw socket.

The easiest solution is to use bpf instead of raw sockets, since its
interface is cleaner.

  Bill

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