Quoting Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:41:30PM -0500, Kashif Shaikh wrote: > > Currently, when I create the destination broadcast socket and send some > > data, tcpdump shows the source IP to be 10.0.0.1. But I need the source > > IP to be 10.0.0.101! > > Does the bind(2) system call do what you need? > > -- > "In time of war, the laws are silent." -- Chief Justice of the United > States Supreme Court, William Rehnquist > There is a type called SOCK_PACKET which you can specify when you create the socket.Using this you can create your own packets also. try reading up more information on this. -sridhar -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/