Raw sockets

[Andrae Muys]

ed_play at yahoo.co.uk (Ben Ainsworth) wrote in message news:<2c55c8be.0112130949.761bc120 at posting.google.com>...
> Is there a good intro to using raw sockets with python on the web? I
> want to try writing a variant of traceroute using tcp instead of icmp.
> 

Might I suggest you first check out Stevens 'TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 1'
as it will explain in excelent detail how traceroute is built using
UDP not ICMP :).

Andrae Muys