"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.