James Carlson wrote: > Sebastien Roy writes: >> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:05 +0100, George Shepherd wrote: >>> Hmm That'll need testing with several Sun unbundled products. >>> Solstice X.25 for example. >> Right. I've been following this thread passively, but my feeling is >> that there is nothing good that can possibly come of fixing this "bug". >> First, I don't view this as a bug, but a really poorly designed feature. >> Second, the impact of accidentally running into this poorly designed >> feature is minimal, while fixing it is highly risky. Do we know what >> other kinds of datalinks masquerade as DL_ETHER but depend the setting >> of the destination IP address to set IFF_POINTOPOINT? I certainly >> don't, and I don't see the value of discovering them through deliberate >> breakage. > > I think that's a pretty reasonable alternative. I still think fixing > the bug would be nice to do, but "not worth the bother and risk" is a > valid answer. >
Fair enough. IMHO, at the very least, it would be nice to see a warning message either via cmn_err in ip or stderr in ifconfig. I definitely understand the impact of 'fixing' the problem and the headache that would entail, but at least a warning message would a) flag that this is a known issue, and b) hopefully reduce a little confusion :) -- Yet magic and hierarchy arise from the same source, and this source has a null pointer. Reference the NULL within NULL, it is the gateway to all wizardry. _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
