Re: EHOSTDOWN on unconnected UDP6

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost ("J. Hannken-Illjes") writes:

>> EHOSTDOWN is the result of a received "address unreachable" ICMPv6 packet,
>> there is no corresponding IPv4 message.

>Ok, but why do we deliver this error asynchronously to an
>udp6 socket that is bound but not connected.

>How should the server know which of the messages
>it sent failed?

If I read the code correctly, the socket destination address
is set in the PCB when you send a message, and is searched
later when a notification should be delivered to the socket.

So you get the error for the last destination.

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