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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!139.85.52.101!hnssysb.hns.com!usenet From: "Kapil Chowksey (Jaeger)" <kchowksey@hss.hns.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: socket(AF_INET,SOCK_RAW,IPPROTO_ICMP) ??? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:07:44 +0000 Organization: Hughes Software Systems Lines: 20 Message-ID: <330D9010.F065BD4@hss.hns.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: valhalla.hss.hns.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.1.59 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35862 hi, Like almost half the world, I'm trying to read ICMP pkts from a FreeBSD2.1.6-RELEASE box; I'm doing socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_ICMP) then I do recvfrom's. The result is that I can read *all* ICMP pkt types (ECHO_RESPONSE, TIME_EXCEEDED etc.etc.) _except_ for ICMP_ECHO (echo request) can someone point me what changes to make to the kernel to read 'em all properly ? (yeah, yeah we oughtta use libpcap.) -- Kapil Chowksey kchowksey@hss.hns.com