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To: landley@trommello.org (Rob Landley)
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Subject: Re: packet created by local raw socket
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: 04 Feb 2002 02:34:10 +0100
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landley@trommello.org (Rob Landley) writes:

> If you asked for a raw socket, the system won't append an IP header to it for 
> you.  You asked it not to.

I guess you mean prepend instead of append. 

In fact the raw sockets add an IP header, unless you specify 
IPPROTO_RAW or IP_HDRINCL. Both are discouraged. 

-Andi

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