Support of IPv6 extension headers

2006-12-20 Thread cychong
Hi, There is no probleming in programming the basic IPv6 socket program with the python. Then how about the IPv6 extension header? The RFC 2292 and man pages from the unix/linux advise to use the sendmsg to send the packet with the extension header. Does python support the extension header

Re: Support of IPv6 extension headers

2006-12-20 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On 20 Dec 2006 07:07:02 -0800, cychong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There is no probleming in programming the basic IPv6 socket program with the python. Then how about the IPv6 extension header? The RFC 2292 and man pages from the unix/linux advise to use the sendmsg to send the packet with the

Re: Support of IPv6 extension headers

2006-12-20 Thread cychong
Thanks for your reply. BTW, is there any way to send the packet with the IPV6 extension header w/o using sendmsg? Chae-yong Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: On 20 Dec 2006 07:07:02 -0800, cychong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There is no probleming in programming the basic IPv6 socket program

Re: Support of IPv6 extension headers

2006-12-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
cychong schrieb: BTW, is there any way to send the packet with the IPV6 extension header w/o using sendmsg? That depends on your operating system. Find out whether your operating system supports that; if it does, it is easy to tell whether that is exposed in Python or not. Regards, Martin --