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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:12:12 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com>
To:        Ping Yuan <pyuan@ece.rice.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IP header.
Message-ID:  <20000929201212.A50668@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <007a01c02a33$f910f270$42042a80@teddy.ece.rice.edu>; from pyuan@ece.rice.edu on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:40:26AM -0500
References:  <007a01c02a33$f910f270$42042a80@teddy.ece.rice.edu>

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:40:26AM -0500, Ping Yuan wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:04:39AM -0500, Ping Yuan wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am now writing a traffic generator. I want to write something in the IP
> >> header of every packet before I send it out. Is this possible? If yes,
> how
> >> to implement it? If not, is there any other solutions?
> >>
> >You can do that by constructing an IP packet with header and sending it to
> >raw IP socket with IP_HDRINCL socket option set.  See ip(4) page for
> details.
> >
> 
> Then, will this IP header be the header of the UDP packet I generated? I
> mean, if I run tcpdump at the destination host to monitor all the UDP
> packets, can the bits I set in the ip header be identified?
> 
Yes, if you set the ip_p field to IPPROTO_UDP.  Please also note that
ip_id field (if not-zero) should be given in network byte order, while
ip_off and ip_len fields in host byte order.

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