closes bpo-25041: Document AF_PACKET socket address format. (GH-4092) · python/cpython@731ff68 (original) (raw)
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- Certain other address families (:const:
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support specific representations.
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AF_PACKETis a low-level interface directly to network devices.
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The packets are represented by the tuple
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``(ifname, proto[, pkttype[, hatype[, addr]]])`` where:
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- ifname - String specifying the device name.
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- proto - An in network-byte-order integer specifying the Ethernet
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protocol number.
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- pkttype - Optional integer specifying the packet type:
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- ``PACKET_HOST`` (the default) - Packet addressed to the local host.
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- ``PACKET_BROADCAST`` - Physical-layer broadcast packet.
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- ``PACKET_MULTIHOST`` - Packet sent to a physical-layer multicast address.
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- ``PACKET_OTHERHOST`` - Packet to some other host that has been caught by
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a device driver in promiscuous mode.
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- ``PACKET_OUTGOING`` - Packet originating from the local host that is
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looped back to a packet socket.
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- hatype - Optional integer specifying the ARP hardware address type.
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- addr - Optional bytes-like object specifying the hardware physical
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address, whose interpretation depends on the device.
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`If you use a hostname in the host portion of IPv4/v6 socket address, the
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`program may show a nondeterministic behavior, as Python uses the first address
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.. data:: AF_PACKET
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PF_PACKET
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Many constants of these forms, documented in the Linux documentation, are
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also defined in the socket module.
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Availability: Linux >= 2.2.
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`.. data:: AF_RDS
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` Create a new socket using the given address family, socket type and protocol
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socket type should be :const:SOCK_STREAM (the default),
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case where the address family is :const:AF_CAN the protocol should be one
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of :const:CAN_RAW, :const:CAN_BCM or :const:CAN_ISOTP
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:const:AF_INET6, :const:AF_UNIX, :const:AF_CAN, :const:AF_PACKET,
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or :const:AF_RDS. The socket type should be :const:SOCK_STREAM (the
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default), :const:SOCK_DGRAM, :const:SOCK_RAW or perhaps one of the other
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``SOCK_`` constants. The protocol number is usually zero and may be omitted
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or in the case where the address family is :const:AF_CAN the protocol
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should be one of :const:CAN_RAW, :const:CAN_BCM or :const:CAN_ISOTP.
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` If fileno is specified, the values for family, type, and proto are
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` auto-detected from the specified file descriptor. Auto-detection can be
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