raw ip paket sendto error

[Stefan]

>
> I guess in this case getaddrinfo() tried to match the specified
> "service" (port) with a raw socket (for which there is no notion of
> "service"), and returned an error.

Yes your right, I tried it without the port argument and it went fine.

>
> BTW, when I tried the same test on Solaris 10 and OpenBSD 3.6 (and
> NetBSD 2.0.1 for that matter), I saw the same error.  So, it seems the
> current trend is to require a specific hint, and FreeBSD is not that
> special.

Hmm strange, I tried it again on OpenBSD 3.8 and there were no  
problems (i386).
>

Any suggestions for the second major problem?

Best regards, Stefan