Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:11:52 +0200 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias |
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On Thu, 06 Sep 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> If you accept 10.0.0.1 from the outside you are leaking information. It
No, if you accept 10.*.*.* from the outside, your routers are broken.
> user configured data isnt a solution. For the 99.9% of normal cases > SIOCGIFCONF is going to give the right data. People doing clever things > will have to set up config files. simple easy - hard possible.
Alan, SIOCGIFCONF is working sufficiently, it's SIOCGIFNETMASK that we're talking about. SIOCGIFNETMASK works properly on any other system or - as far as I can currently test - with my patch.
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