From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:28:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:27:57 -0400 Received: from [209.10.41.242] ([209.10.41.242]:56211 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:27:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:22:21 +0300 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pekka_Pietik=E4inen?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christian Widmer Subject: Re: SOCK_SEQPACKET Message-ID: <20010821162221.A23999@netppl.fi> In-Reply-To: <200108211153.f7LBrpk08803@mail.swissonline.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108211153.f7LBrpk08803@mail.swissonline.ch>; from cwidmer@iiic.ethz.ch on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:53:45PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:53:45PM +0200, Christian Widmer wrote: > hi, > > when reading the man page for sockets i saw the socket SOCK_SEQPACKET > which meets my requirements quite good. unfortunatly the man page also sais > that SOCK_SEQPACKET is not implementet by the protocol famaly PF_INET > (misleadingly calld AF_INET in the man page). whats about PF_INET6? Actually SOCK_SEQPACKET works just fine even with PF_INET, you just need a protocol that uses it :) For an example implementation that uses it, see STP for Linux (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/stp). -- Pekka Pietikainen