Re: socket query

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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:53:25 +0530
vijay kalkoti <vijayck@gmail.com> wrote:

> > No it does not.  Such an interface was (purposely) left out of
> > the ipv6 socket API.
> > 
> 
> Then how to send a packet containing IPv6 header. i.e, user has filled
> the IPv6 header, and this has to be sent onto network, what is the API
> in IPv6.

Use AF_PACKET if you wish to create your own IPV6 headers.
IPv6 header processing is much too complex to allow users
to provide their own to the existing ipv6 packet output
path.
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