Re: the need for raw-network-sockets in BSD nowadays?

[Hummel Tom <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger schrieb:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 03:57:11PM +0200, Hummel Tom wrote:
>
> > > For any protocol that's not handled by the kernel or for sending
> > > self-crafted packets. Ping uses raw sockets, so does nmap. 
> >
> > Ping uses raw sockets? I really doubt that, if not, why do we have any 
> > ICMP implementation?
>
>
> Because providing an interface for a superset of all the ICMP userland
> tools is easily more work than raw sockets. The kernel ICMP implements
> all the kernel cares about, not more.

Then all userland tools implement the rest for themselfes? where's the 
rest of the ICMP stored?

tom