ip_nonlocal_bind and sendto

[david]

I've got a need to forge the source IP of UDP packets (a stupid syslog 
receiver app that I need to deal with)

I know that this can be done with raw sockets, but with the 
IP_nonlocal_bind option I thought that it may be possible to do this 
without dealing with raw sockets

so I have an app that does the socket call, followed by the bind call 
without any errors, but when I issue the sendto call it generates error 22 
(invalid parameter) if the source IP doesn't exist on the local box 
somewhere.

is this the kernel that is doing whatever check is failing? or is glibc 
wrapping the kernel syscall and doing some additional checking?

if it is the kernel that's throwing the error, is there some way of 
disabling this check? or do I have to go to raw sockets?

David Lang
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