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Re: IP_TOS possible bug?


On Sep  5 13:37, Yung Leem wrote:
> I am having a trouble with setting IP_TOS.
> 
> Currently I am trying to send UDP packets with TOS parameter set to
> something other than the default value of 0x00.
> 
> I am using cygwin version 1.5.17(0.129/4/2).
> 
> I have no problem sending a UDP packet if I do not call the following
> function,
> 
> int rc = setsockopt( inSettings->mSock, IPPROTO_IP, IP_TOS, (char*) &tos,
> len );
> 
> rc's value is 0 after the call, so it seemed to work fine, but I believe
> this is what's causing the following error.
> 
> "write2 failed: Transport endpoint is not connected"
> 
> With some search around, I found that
> 
> #define	IP_TOS  3   /* old (winsock 1.1) value 8 */
> 
> So I tried this value (3 instead of 8), and now it does not give me the
> previous problem 
> with "write2 failed: Transport endpoint is not connected", but it does not
> seem to do
> anything when I sniffed the IP packet with Ethereal.
> 
> Could anybody help me with this?  I really appreciate your help.

IP_TOS is crappy on Windows.  First, the value of IP_TOS depends on
whether using Winsock1 or WinSock2, second, it's disabled by default in
systems since W2K.
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;248611
for the sad details.


Corinna

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