* Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000120 15:30] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this is a while in coming, but now that I'm looking at getting
> ppp(8) to talk IPv6 (with the help of some KAME patches), I've looked
> at how TUNSLMODE is implemented... it doesn't look good to me.
>
> What's the rationale behind stuffing the entire sockaddr in front of
> the packet ? AFAIK the only information of any use is the address
> family.
>
> By default, OpenBSD has a u_int32_t in front of every packet (I
> believe this is unconfigurable), and I think this is about the most
> sensible thing to do - I don't see that alignment issues will cause
> problems.
>
> Alfred, this was originally submitted by you. Do you have any
> argument against me changing it to just stuff the address family
> as a 4-byte network-byte-order quantity there ?
>
> Any other opinions/arguments ?
No objections, I just did it as an excercise to implement something
in the manpages.
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