[ECOS] Ecos-Socket Error

[Jonathan Larmour]

Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:41:36PM +0530, Anagha Anil Bhopale wrote:
> > The error  is:
> > Socket error: No error
> > bind error: Can't assign requested address
> >
> > I've have used
> > iSocket_Descriptor=socket(PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,6)
> > to create the socket.
> 
> Why pass 6 as the protocol? My linux man page tcp(7) says the protocol
> should be 0.

0 means "default" so for IP, TCP will be the default for
PF_INIT/SOCK_STREAM. More precisely it is 6 though, as per /etc/protocols.
The ip(7) man page sez:
"The only valid values for protocol are 0 and IPPROTO_TCP  for TCP  sockets
and 0 and IPPROTO_UDP for UDP sockets." IPPROTO_TCP is indeed 6.

Jifl
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