UDP Socket Options

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:43:33PM -0700, millarkav at yahoo.com wrote:
> FreeBSD ought to add per-socket socket options to
> allow a programmer to turn  on and off the don't
> fragment bit for UDP and the UDP checksum, on a per
> socket basis.

Why? Sure, it would be easy enough to do, but why exactly do you need this?

Rewriting traceroute without recourse to SOCK_RAW is one possible use
that springs to mind. But can you elaborate?

BMS