RHEL 6: Unable to get TOS field for TCP connections

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Trying to retrieve TOS field from TCP streams via
getsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_IP, IP_PKTOPTIONS, ...);

does not work.

  • Not able to receive IP_TOS value from a TCP socket stream

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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