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Re: traceroute -g ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Mon Jun 26 18:47:16 1995
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 16:09:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3slfqp$5fl@smurf.noris.de>
No. Have you seen th berkely networking stuff. Is horrible. Yes it would=20
make my life easier by making my port of mrouted less of a pain but I=20
still wouldnt change it. Alan has done a great job.
Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net
http://underground.org/
On 26 Jun 1995, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Date: 26 Jun 1995 07:16:09 +0200
> From: Matthias Urlichs <urlichs@smurf.noris.de>
> To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
> Newgroups: linux.dev.net
> Subject: Re: traceroute -g ?
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> In linux.dev.net, article <m0sPmhb-0002BxC@as.ucsb.edu>,
> tamsky@as.ucsb.edu (Marc A. Tamsky) writes:
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> > } Yes, I know, but this doesn't necessarily have to stop you from assem=
bling
> > } the whole IP header in user space, and sending that.
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> > Yeah, but you want open a raw icmp socket and make the ip packets and
> > route them yourself?
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> No, but if somebody has already done that, I wouldn't have to wait / hack
> the kernel.
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> > Sounds like the code would be going into the wrong program.... :)
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> Actually, the version of traceroute I have does supply its own IP header =
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> sans options, which it gives to the kernel in a separate call and then
> expects the kernel to piece them together. Very funny...
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> 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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