Support of IPv6 extension headers

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Wed Dec 20 10:20:11 EST 2006


On 20 Dec 2006 07:07:02 -0800, cychong <cychong at gmail.com> 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 extension header.
>Does python support the extension header processing?

Python doesn't expose sendmsg.  There are several third-party
modules which do, though.  Googling for "python sendmsg" turns
up some useful links.

Jean-Paul



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