Michael Graff writes:
>However, I don't agree that we should allow "bad" packets to be transmitted
>using sendto().  IMHO, if you are going to do this, use BPF directly.

Why?  Do you have any reasons for that?

>Right now, although I have not verified this, any raw-mode socket can
>crash the machine by setting the field ip->ip_len  to be greater than the
>data in the mbuf chain.  This is _wrong_ and will cause a kernel panic.
>IMHO, this is a bug, and should not be allowed...

Correct.  It should not happen that the machine crashes if ip->ip_len
has a bad value.  However, that has nothing to do with the ability to
send packets with bad ip->ip_len values.  The kernel should be fixed
to not panic in that case and not to silently "correct" the value.

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