RE: IP options IP_RECVOPTS on Linux 2.6 - Kindly comment

[Eric Dumazet]

On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 05:25 +0000, S, Sreeram wrote:
> Thanks a lot Ravi for the response.
> 
> But, the IP header is 40 bytes and so I think I should expect all
> those 40 bytes to be returned to my program when I enable this option.
> Isnt that correct ?
> 
> Here, TTL and TOS are getting returned because I have explicitly
> enabled the returns of IP_RECVTTL and IP_RECVTOS to my program using
> setsockopt. Otherwise even they wouldnât have been returned.
> 
> I still think that the kernel is not returning what it should return
> when I enable IP_RECVOPTS. Please correct me if you think I am wrong.
> 
>  
> 
> Also, what are the other ways of getting the IP header other than RAW
> sockets, if the current approach does not work?
> 
>  

IP options are not IP header.

Try to send an IP packets with options, and your program will work.




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