mbeattie at clueful
Nov 6, 2001, 4:55 PM
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Alan Robertson writes:
> David Lang wrote:
> >
> > with 0.4.9 on 2.4.14 kernels I get a message
> > send_arp uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)
> > when it takes over the IP addresses.
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> I've seen it too.
>
> I have no idea what it's complaining about (or how to fix it). Patches are
> being accepted ;-)
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_PACKET, protocol) was deprecated in 2.2 and causes
visible moans in 2.4. I assume (having only seen its name) that send_arp
fakes up a gratuitous ARP which is why it's contructing a raw packet.
The "proper" way to do that these days would be to use the PF_PACKET
family with type SOCK_DGRAM (unless you have to fake up the ethernet
destination address beyond what you the sockaddr_ll lets you already do
in which case you want SOCK_RAW). See "man 7 packet" for details.
--Malcolm
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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie [at] clueful>
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IBM EMEA Enterprise Server Group...
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