Raw sockets

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Thu Dec 20 16:29:23 EST 2001


In article <2c55c8be.0112201244.2e4e1027 at posting.google.com>, Ben Ainsworth wrote:
>> [1] If you're going to use tcp, then why do you need raw sockets?
> 
> I've got the impression that you need the tighter control over
> TCP that raw sockets allows,

Tighter control than raw sockets? Raw sockets is as low-level
as it gets.  You even have to put the Ethernet addresses in
yourself.

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