Re: Socket type not supported..

[Juan Cespedes <cespedes () lander es>]

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:25:11PM +0100, Hroi Sigurdsson wrote:
> SOCK_PACKET seems to have been completely deprecated in 2.2.0. There's
> not even a mention of it in any of the toplevel files in /usr/src/linux.
> So obviously nmap/libpcap-possibly-modified needs to be fixed? Will it
> even be fixable when using the linux packet-filter?

        I don't know what does libpcap do (I don't have it handy), but
the correct way to open a socket for sending and receiving packets in
linux-2.1.* and linux-2.2.* is to do
                socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(0x0800))
instead of
                socket(PF_INET, SOCK_PACKET, htons(0x0800))

IMHO, the best option is to use the newer parameters, and if that
fails, fall back to the old ones.

-- 
Juan Cespedes