[Ns-developers] Raw sockets are not raw

[Tom Henderson]

Pavel Boyko wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>   I have faced with the fact that raw socket implementation 
> (Ipv4RawSocketImpl) doesn't allow me to create IP header by hands. Instead it 
> finish with the same IP header initialization stuff in Ipv4L3Protocol::Send() as 
> UDP and TCP sockets do. 
> 

I have typically seen two variants of raw sockets, controlled by the 
HDR_INCL socket option; one that allows you to include the header, and 
one that fills it in for you.  Only the latter mode is supported in the 
current implementation.  A patch for the former mode would be welcome.

- Tom