Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:40:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/30873: ``ip'' man page does not specify byte order for ip header with raw sockets Message-ID: <200109271540.f8RFe6H50096@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/30873; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Douglas De Couto <decouto@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/30873: ``ip'' man page does not specify byte order for ip header with raw sockets Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:39:12 +0300 On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:28:55AM -0700, Douglas De Couto wrote: > > There is no easy way to use the man pages figure out how to use raw sockets. > On my system ``apropos raw'' doesn't point me to the ``ip'' man page, > which describes raw sockets. Furthermor, the ``ip'' man page doesn't > specify the byte order for the up header fields when the user is supplying > the ip header. > Hmm, the ip.4 manpage, in the ``Raw IP Sockets'' has this info in the form of an example. The only missing item is that the ``ip_id'' field (if supplied) should be in network byte order, historically. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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