On Oct 26 13:57, Fernando Barsoba wrote: > Hi all, > > Using raw sockets with cygwin is being really painful... After being > able to create an IP datagram using the latest snapshot now I'm getting > the error "Invalid argument" when calling recvfrom() without doing BIND > first. > > There is no need to call bind() before recvfrom when using raw sockets. > Why am i getting this error now? Some restriction with winsock?
Probably. When using raw sockets with Cygwin, you're really in the hands of Winsock, which has a couple of restrictions in that matter. I'd suggest to have a look into MSDN which elaborates a bit on the usage of raw sockets. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
