Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:02:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Don <don@calis.blacksun.org> To: BelletJr@aol.com Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: connect(2) behavior with unreacheable hosts Message-ID: <20030412125908.G4156@calis.blacksun.org> In-Reply-To: <20030412123544.B4056@calis.blacksun.org> References: <134.1e1ff9dc.2bc95035@aol.com> <20030412123544.B4056@calis.blacksun.org>
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> ICMP Type 11. If the host does not receive this message, then the only > thing connect() can do is timeout. In that case connect() should return -1 > and errno should return [ETIMEDOUT] or [ENETUNREACH] (I have no idea which > one). Actually if ICMP is not working, it should return [ETIMEDOUT]. If ICMP is working, I am not sure which of those errno value would be returned. This is just a guess based on the information in connect(2). -Don
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