Support of IPv6 extension headers

[cychong]

Thanks for your reply.
BTW, is there any way to send the packet with the IPV6 extension header
w/o using sendmsg?

Chae-yong

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> On 20 Dec 2006 07:07:02 -0800, cychong <cychong at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >There is no probleming in programming the basic IPv6 socket program
> >with the python.
> >Then how about the IPv6 extension header? The RFC 2292 and man pages
> >from the unix/linux advise
> >to use the sendmsg to send the packet with the extension header.
> >Does python support the extension header processing?
>
> Python doesn't expose sendmsg.  There are several third-party
> modules which do, though.  Googling for "python sendmsg" turns
> up some useful links.
> 
> Jean-Paul