From 504229f808836f4d74d6611fd666957e41e2a259 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Charles.Forsyth" Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:01:15 +0000 Subject: 20070510-1000 remove use of oldheaders mode --- man/3/ip | 18 ------------------ 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-) (limited to 'man/3') diff --git a/man/3/ip b/man/3/ip index e5318691..1ae00f7e 100644 --- a/man/3/ip +++ b/man/3/ip @@ -322,24 +322,6 @@ and if the local IP address corresponds to a valid local unicast interface, that address is used, otherwise the IP address of the transmitting interface is substituted. .TP -.B oldheaders -Set the connection to use an address header with IPv6 addressing -on reads and writes of the data file, -allowing a single connection to send datagrams to converse with -many different destination addresses and ports. -The 36 byte binary header appears before the data -read or written. -It contains: remote IP address, local IP address, remote port, and local port. -The IP addresses are 16 bytes each in IPv6 format, -the port addresses are 2 bytes each, all written in network (big-endian) order. -On reads, the header gives the values from the incoming datagram, -except that if the remote used a multicast destination address, the IP address -of the receiving interface is substituted. -On writes, the header provides the destination for the resulting datagram, -and if the local IP address corresponds to a valid local unicast interface, -that address is used, otherwise the IP address of the transmitting interface -is substituted. -.TP .B headers4 Set the connection to use an address header with IPv4 addresses on reads and writes of the data file, -- cgit v1.2.3