[Xorp-users] querry related with ground level work of xorp

Bruce Simpson bms at incunabulum.net
Tue Aug 4 22:41:37 PDT 2009


bhavin81 at iitb.ac.in wrote:
> Hello Friends,
>
>     Where is the socket programing part in xorp. It it only in fea/data-plane
> or is it at somewhere else also?

Only BGP and the FEA directly talk to the host's socket layer.

>  My doubt is use getsockopt or setsockopt
> for sending or receiving any pkt. (using raw socket feature)
>   

Please use libcomm for getsockopt()/setsockopt() wrapper operations, 
please only do this from within the FEA, this is what the raw socket 
XRLs are for.

thanks,
BMS



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