Re: [lwip-members] UDP_FLAGS_CONNECTED in udp.c or socket layer?

[Kieran Mansley]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Jani Monoses wrote:

> Hi Leon
> I added that at the UDP level because it was udp_input that used to
> discard packets not addressed to the current remote_ip.
> So while connectedness is definitely a socket thing, a flag in UDP is a hint
> for the UDP layer about this.I can't think of another method for this except
> allowing packets regardless of their IP in udp_input and filtering them in 
> the upper layer.

Just a thought, and I've not been following all the intricacies of this so
it might be a stupid question, but how do other stacks deal with this
problem?


Kieran