Re: SOCK_SEQPACKET

From: Pekka Pietikäinen (pp@netppl.fi)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 08:22:21 EST

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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).

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Pekka Pietikainen
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