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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 09:49:46 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Min Huang (tunny)" <hmin@public.cq.sc.cn>
Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Out-of-band? Protocal-RAW?
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On Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 03:49:25PM +0800, Min Huang (tunny) wrote:
> Hi, Sir,
> 
> These seems not FreeBSD Questions, but I hope I can get help from you.
> What's Out-Of-Band ? What's its use and usage? How does it work? 
> What's Protocal-RAW, what's its use and useage, how does it work,
> why can only super-user use it? The FreeBSD 2.2.2 man pages didn't
> explain it.

Read Steven's books (TCP/IP Illustrated).  As you say, this isn't
really a FreeBSD topic.

Greg