Cool! Thanks. On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello 文剑, > > On 08/11/2011 06:04 PM, 文剑 wrote: >> As mentioned in packet(7), "Only the sll_protocol and the sll_ifindex >> address fields are used for purposes of binding." >> But in my test, sll_family is also used for binding a packet socket to an >> interface. > > I'm catching up with some very old mail. > > I've applied your patch (for a problem that Cortland also reported). > Thank you for sending it, and sorry that it sat on the floor for so > long. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > >> My enviroment: 2.6.38-10-generic Ubuntu-11.04 i686 >> >> Against man-pages 3.33. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jian Wen >> >> --- >> man7/packet.7 | 18 ++++++++---------- >> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/man7/packet.7 b/man7/packet.7 >> index 5e35ae2..3de2550 100644 >> --- a/man7/packet.7 >> +++ b/man7/packet.7 >> @@ -84,11 +84,14 @@ To only get packets from a specific interface use >> specifying an address in a >> .I struct sockaddr_ll >> to bind the packet socket to an interface. >> -Only the >> -.I sll_protocol >> -and the >> -.I sll_ifindex >> -address fields are used for purposes of binding. >> +Fields used for binding are >> +.IR sll_family (should >> +be >> +.BR AF_PACKET ), >> +.IR sll_protocol , >> +and >> +.IR sll_ifindex . >> + >> >> The >> .BR connect (2) >> @@ -166,11 +169,6 @@ The other fields should be 0. >> and >> .I sll_pkttype >> are set on received packets for your information. >> -For bind only >> -.I sll_protocol >> -and >> -.I sll_ifindex >> -are used. >> .SS Socket Options >> Packet sockets can be used to configure physical layer multicasting >> and promiscuous mode. >> > > > -- > Michael Kerrisk > Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ > Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- Best, Jian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
