"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > same semantics as the usual ones.
> > Okay, that makes at least some sense :-)
> > I saw its use in ping.c to get the ICMP protocol number, and that's
> > definitely completely useless.
> Unless they originaly thought about making the protocol number
> dynamic
> (like automatically allocated when loading a proto module).
Since the protocol numbers are specified by IANA and must match (if the
protocol should be of any use) the protocol number that the IP header
advertizes, I really don't see that :)
Bye,
Axel.
