Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 08:43:51 -0400 From: raviprasad20@netscape.net To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Display of prefixes in aperticular ifnet structure. Message-ID: <0BDE53AB.15B71EF0.9513E96F@netscape.net> References: <39199B3B.03898409.9513E96F@netscape.net> <y7vpuckg5ec.wl@condor2.jinmei.org>
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Hi, As per your advice i left the prefix command & gave prefixes in the configuration file /etc/defaults/rc.conf itself. Still my print is the one that that i have mentioned. Kindly reply. regards ravi prasad JINMEI Tatuya / <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> wrote: > > >>>>> On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 09:27:30 -0400, > >>>>> raviprasad20@netscape.net said: > > > I configured some prefixes through the "prefix" command. I then tried to display them as itis by reading the "ifnet" structure's "if_prefixhead" member. The result is like this. > > > Prefix was set as > > #prefix wb0 fec0:11::1 > > > the prefix displayed later by reading the ifnet structure is as follows. > > The data is in 8bits. (Displayed by using the > > printf(" %x\t",ifp->if_prefixhead.next->prefix.s6_addr8[0]); & etc till 15) > > > The output is like this. > > 00 00 00 00 00 00 fe c0 00 11 00 00 > > 00 00 00 00 > > > > Can any body mail me if I had done some mistake & that's why iam getting the above result? > > Or there is some other place where prefixes are stored & from that place we can get prefixes correctly? > > Are prefixes stored in this way itself? > > I'm not sure, but we (the KAME project) would really recommend not to > use the prefix command, but stick to legacy ifconfig(8). We've found > many weird situations (including kernel panic) that the prefix > manipulation cause, so the prefix command and the underling kernel has > already been obsoleted in the KAME snaps, and the change will be > merged into future releases of FreeBSD. > > JINMEI, Tatuya > Communication Platform Lab. > Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. > jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp > __________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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