Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:40:54 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, Nate Lawson <nate@almond.elite.net>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apparent bug in sendto() with raw sockets Message-ID: <199806251840.LAA14290@mango.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jun 1998 10:18:57 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980625101801.21522C-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.980625101801.21522C-100000@current1.whistle.com>you w rite: >Why are we ... different? Because the original implementation of raw sockets (the patches included with LBL's traceroute) simply exposed ip_output()'s interface, which requires length and offset in host order. AFAIK, this original implementation happened on suns, which is why nobody noticed at the time. We are compatible with this original implementation. OpenBSD and Linux chose to change the semantics to the ones that are less surprising but not backwards compatible. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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