RE: raw/packet sockets

["Sarcar, Shourya (MED)" <Shourya.Sarcar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gaurav,
	1. do a little readup on effective user id and real user id. I think
it is covered in advanced programming on unix , rich stevens. that should
answer your queries.

	2. at the socket level, things are usually procedural. but that is
very unsafe due to a whole lot of reasons, doesn't scale well, can be arued
to be not-very-robust etc. etc. that is why you have frameworks like ACE
coming up
For more on network oo progmng,  please read this paper
	http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/C++-report-col1.pdf

	Warmest regards and wish you all the best on your work
	Shourya

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#-----Original Message-----
#From: Gaurav Priyolkar [mailto:pgaurav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
#Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 4:01 PM
#To: linux-india-programmers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
#Subject: [LIP] raw/packet sockets
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#Hi all,
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#This is once again with reference to the question about implementing
#protocols that I had earlier for which I thank all those who helped.
#Regarding the two suggestions offered, I have as yet been 
#unable to download
#'ns' and I am going ahead with using packet sockets. Now 
#regarding the use
#of packet sockets I have a question:
#Only superuser is allowed to create packet or raw sockets. So, 
#in a program,
#would I have to ask the user to enter root password, then do a 'su -' ,
#create the sockets followed by an 'exit' system call? Or is there an
#alternative method ?
#
#Also, should such system programs be object oriented or procedural? My
#thinking is that they should be probably be procedural.
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