On Jun 16, 2010 at 08:41, Olle E. Johansson
<oej(a)edvina.net> wrote:
15 jun 2010 kl. 16.45 skrev Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul:
raw sockets: udp send will use now raw sockets if
enabled
A raw socket, that will be used for sending, is now initialized on
startup. The operation can succeed only if sr is started as root
or with CAP_NET_RAW.
If the initialization fails and the raw sockets are forced on from
the config (udp4_raw = 1), ser won't start. If the raw socket are
in auto mode (udp4_raw = -1), sr will start, but with the raw
socket send part disabled (normal udp send will be used).
If the raw socket part is not disabled at startup, it can be
turned anytime on/off via the runtime cfg. framework.
Note: the raw socket send is supported only over ipv4 and for now
only on linux.
Andrei,
Can you explain the benefit of the raw sockets too? This sounds very
interesting, but I don't see the reason why you want this. I am very
curious!
for a little more info. More details after I get to do some performance
testing.
Also parts of the code will be used in the future for icmp based
blacklisting and maybe for some kind of udp only transparent proxy or load
balancer modules (icmp much more likely to happen though).