Does select (for write) work on PACKET_SOCKETs ?

It does not seem to work for me like I want it to. Basically,
it seems that it always takes the entire timeout (50-80 ms in my case), but at least the socket descriptor is SET when select returns. I want it to return as soon as the socket is writable, which at low (56kbps) speed on a 100bt NIC should be immediate, or certainly less than 50ms.

I'm using kernel 2.4.6-pre3 with RH 7.1.

Here is a snippet of code that does the socket creation (I am binding in this case.):

int createPacketSocket(const char* dev_name, int ether_type, int dev_idx, int should_bind) {
LF_TRC_IN;
VLOG << "dev_name -:" << dev_name << ":- dev_idx: " << dev_idx

        << " type (decimal): " << ether_type << endl;

   int s = socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ether_type));
   int r; //retval

   if (s < 0) {
      cerr << "ERROR: socket:  " << strerror(errno) << endl;
      VLOG << "ERROR: socket:  " << strerror(errno) << endl;
      return s;
   }

   if (should_bind) {
      struct sockaddr_ll myaddr;

      memset(&myaddr, '\0', sizeof(myaddr));
      myaddr.sll_family = AF_PACKET;
      myaddr.sll_protocol = htons(ether_type);
      myaddr.sll_ifindex = dev_idx;
      //strcpy(myaddr.sa_data, dev_name);
      
      r = bind(s, (struct sockaddr*)(&myaddr), sizeof(myaddr));
      if (r < 0) {
         cerr << "ERROR: bind:  " << strerror(errno) << endl;
         VLOG << "ERROR: bind:  " << strerror(errno) << endl;
         return r;
      }

}

nonblock(s);
return s;
}

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Ben

Ben Greear <[email protected]>          <[email protected]>
President of Candela Technologies Inc      http://www.candelatech.com
ScryMUD:  http://scry.wanfear.com     http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear