Ok, I'm going to try answering both your responses Seth and Sridhar:(I'm not at work, so I'm using my yahoo account). >Quoting Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>: >> >> Does the bind(2) system call do what you need? >> Thanks seth, My fault for not understanding bind fully, until I read the man 7 socket: "...connect(2) connects a socket to a remote socket address, and bind(2) function binds a socket to a local socket address". So yes, bind(2) is what I needed. >Quoting sridhar vaidyanathan <sridarv@ufl.edu> >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. Actually you if I wanted to I could create a SOCK_RAW socket, and then specify the IP header through IP_HDRINCL option. I'm not sure if the following applies to 2.4 kernels but raw(7) states: "In Linux 2.2 all IP header fields and options can be set using IP socket options." Though I'll check out SOCK_PACKET. >-sridhar Thanks for everyone replying, This will help me implement virtual netbios hosts for samba registering with WINS server or client Windows machines(extending the idea for netbios aliases). Kashif Shaikh __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
