Re: screwy kernel messages about (AF_INET,SOCK_PACKET,..) being obsolete

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> It means what it says. Do use socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, ..) instead.

I have been looking at it in the context of Diald.

This does not seem to be an exact substitute for (AF_INET,SOCK_PACKET,..)

1) It does not support ioctl(..., SIOCGIFADDR.

2) Diald uses select to watch for input on the proxy port when the link
is down.
With SOCK_PACKET incoming packets trigger the select; with SOCK_RAW,
they don't.

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