David E. Cross writes:
> A friend writing some portable network tunneling software ran into an
> interesting thing... when you specify "IP_HDRINCL" with SOCK_RAW, and
> IPPROTO_RAW you need to construct the outgoing packet in host byte order.
>
> This seems wonderfully inconsistent with all of the other socket based
> networking interface in FreeBSD, and it is also inconsistent with other
> Operating Systems. Would it be possible to get this changed? I can provide
> diffs if need be.
I suspect most people agree it needs to be changed, but the problem is
(as usual) all the legacy code that would break.
Maybe if you had a temporary check in the kernel for backwards packets
that would cause a core dump.. ? Ugh.
-Archie
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