getsockopt

[Steve Holden]

Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> my name is fabian and i'm a student from northern germany. right now i
> try to create som kind of decapsulation of esp-udp packets using python.
> 
> therefor i need to use the socket.getsockopt (SOL_IP, IP_OPTIONS, 20)
> method. But al i get is some empty value. Nothin.
> 
> Does someone know or have an working exmaple of how to use this method??
> 
> The lines:
> s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP)
> s.bind(('',4500))
> while 1:    # Run until cancelled
> 	message, client = s.recvfrom(1400) # <=256 byte datagram
>         hdr = s.getsockopt (SOL_IP, IP_OPTIONS, 20)
>         print "Client connected:", client
>         print "HDR:" + binascii.hexlify(hdr)
> 
Perhaps you're getting an empty string back because no IP options are 
set in the received packets' headers?

regards
  Steve
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