On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Simon Perreault
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-06-11 15:31, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
>> I just got through a thread in misc@,
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=133934252713974&w=2
>>
>> and it seems like the sample code in ip6(4) is wrong.  I've made
adjustments
>> but it doesn't look as nice anymore, perhaps someone can look over it?
 These
>> changes will really help someone first time trying the sample code, I
think.
>> Credit should be given to Simon Perreault, I just did what he suggested.
>
> You can expect the same issue with IPV6_PKTINFO, IPV6_HOPOPTS,
IPV6_DSTOPTS,
> and IPV6_RTHDR. The "RECV" part was added to them in RFC3542.

Yep.  In addition, the text should be clarified to indicate that
turning on IPV6_RECV* will result in the process getting cmsg data of
type IPV6_*.  E.g., IPV6_RECVHOPLIMIT turns on receiving of
IPV6_HOPLIMIT cmsg data.

Peter, do you want to take a stab at that part too?


(There's also a typo in the current page: s/HOPTLIMIT/HOPLIMIT/)


Philip Guenther

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