> > 1.432 (1.29 (1997-09-23)) good
> > 1.46 (1.35 (1998-08-29)) good, but doesn't show lo:1 when it's up
> > 1.47 (1.36 (1998-10-31)) bad
> > 1.51 (1.39 (1999-03-18)) bad
>
> Can you look at the diff between ifconfig 1.35 and 1.36 and tell us if
> there's anything that looks like a loop across detected aliases? I
> noticed the strace showed two ioctl calls where I expected one.
I'm not sure if you already got a look at the source, but I made some
available at:
http://gap.tky.hut.fi/linux/
including patches, 1.46 vs 1.47. My untrained eye didn't notice anything
peculiar about those. The way how interfaces are printed (esp. when using
aliases) has gone through a rewrite though.
Then, I did a little experimentation with latest ifconfig.c source code,
uncommenting some things out I thought could cause the problems.
I think, the problem might be here, in the bottom
memcpy. Rationale? Interesting FIXME line; also, when I tried printing
(char *) &sa just before memcpy, it'd show different things on my IPv6
enabled and IPv6 disabled box.
Unfortunately, I'm only a beginner in C, so I could test it further :(
-------- ifconfig.c latest version ~line 1038 ----
/* FIXME: sa is too small for INET6 addresses, inet6 should use that too,
broadcast is unexpected */
if (ap->getmask) {
switch (ap->getmask(host, &sa, NULL)) {
case -1:
usage();
break;
case 1:
if (didnetmask)
usage();
goterr = set_netmask(skfd, &ifr, &sa);
didnetmask++;
break;
}
}
if (ap->input(0, host, &sa) < 0) {
ap->herror(host);
usage();
}
memcpy((char *) &ifr.ifr_addr, (char *) &sa, sizeof(struct sockaddr));
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HTH, Regards,
--
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