On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:44:34PM +0100, Cord Seele wrote:
> I am trying to get the destination address of an incoming udp packet
> with getsockopt().
> According to the man pages flag IP_PKTINFO should do that. But it
> doesn't work:
>
> struct in_pktinfo pktinfo;
> socklen_t optlen;
> struct in_addr local_addr;
>
> optlen=(socklen_t)sizeof(pktinfo);
> syslog (LOG_ERR, "ERR %d",
> getsockopt(fd, SOL_IP, IP_PKTINFO, &pktinfo, &optlen));
You're misreading the manpage. IP_PKTINFO just enables recvmsg() to pass
ancillary messages that contain pktinfo structures. getsockopt IP_PKTINFO
returns the state of the the IP_PKTINFO flag on the socket.
So use setsockopt IP_PKTINFO to set the flag to true and then receive
them using recvmsg().
-Andi
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