On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:50:51PM +0300, Hasso Tepper wrote: > According to man 7 ip: > > IP_RECVTTL > When this flag is set pass a IP_RECVTTL control message with the > time to live field of the received packet as a byte. Not > supported for SOCK_STREAM sockets. > > This is not what happens. Instead of control message with type IP_RECVTTL > (12) I get message with type IP_TTL (2). What makes it more complicated > is that in FreeBSD (AFAIK othere OSes don't have it) control message has > type IP_RECVTTL. > > Bug in man page? Or in kernel?
The man page was supposed to document the kernel, so it's probably a bug in the manpage. You should send a patch to the manpages maintainers, with a warning in NOTES that the Linux behaviour differs from other OS. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
