Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:31:03 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias |
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:23:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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. > > Then that is worth looking into.
First it would break lots of linux user land (which doesn't initialise sin_addr in SIOCGIFNETMASK) and special casing for "local networks" is in any case bogus. Netmask checking is only needed for that; it's not even needed for local address checking.
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