On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:54:51AM +0200, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> 
> I am writing a monitoring probe, which, among other things,
> sends out an icmp echo request. I'm doing that with the help 
> of Richard Stevens Book "Unix Network Programming", as I am 
> a beginner.
> 
> Now, with raw sockets, there seems to be the need
> to calculate checksums for the icmp header. 
> Stevens uses a in_cksum() function, which he
> implements himself.
> There is a manpage in_cksum(9) which seems to be
> what is needed, but there is no library or header
> files specified in it.
> 
> Is in_cksum(9) only available for the kernel (as section 9 is
> the kernel manual) and am I supposed to write my own in_cksum()?
> (I mean: copy it from stevens...)

Yes, it's only for kernel. It has to optimisations which may not work in
userland.

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