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SubjectRe: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19
Matthias Andree wrote:

> Wietse Venema and I are wondering about different Linux 2.2/2.4 and
> FreeBSD 4.4-RC behaviour when using ioctls to figure interface netmasks,
> FreeBSD gets it right, Linux 2.4.9 and 2.4.9-ac7 get it wrong, and from
> looking at the source, I think, Linux 2.2.19 gets it wrong as well.

> Looking at Linux' Kernel source, Linux 2.4.9 compares just the ifr_name,
> /usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/devinet.c, function devinet_ioctl, ll. 463 ff.
> in 2.4.9, so Linux always returns the mask for the first address, not
> the mask for the requested address. This doesn't matter as long as
> eth0:0-style aliases are configured with ifconfig, but it does matter as
> soon as ip comes into play and both addresses are assigned to eth0
> rather than eth0 and eth0:0.


I think the silence you are hearing from the lkml is a bunch of people thinking
"Oh, crap!".

Chris

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