On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:46:47AM +0100, DJF wrote: > What's the advantage in using the rawsock bpf combination instead of > bpf (or raw socket) only?
Raw IP sockets for write take care of the following for you: 1) Computing IP checksums. 2) Inserting IP options. BPF does neither of those things. For a while BPF was read-only, but it has been read-write capable for quite some time. BMS _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
