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Re: traceroute -g ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Urlichs)
Mon Jun 26 01:59:20 1995
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: urlichs@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Date: 26 Jun 1995 07:16:09 +0200
In linux.dev.net, article <m0sPmhb-0002BxC@as.ucsb.edu>,
tamsky@as.ucsb.edu (Marc A. Tamsky) writes:
>
> } Yes, I know, but this doesn't necessarily have to stop you from assembling
> } the whole IP header in user space, and sending that.
>
> Yeah, but you want open a raw icmp socket and make the ip packets and
> route them yourself?
>
No, but if somebody has already done that, I wouldn't have to wait / hack
the kernel.
> Sounds like the code would be going into the wrong program.... :)
>
Actually, the version of traceroute I have does supply its own IP header --
sans options, which it gives to the kernel in a separate call and then
expects the kernel to piece them together. Very funny...
NB, is there a comprehensive .h file which maps all the names from BSD to
their Linux equivalents? IMHO, not following the standard naming
conventions for the IP networking stuff was a _major_ mistake. :-(
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