Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:28:32 -0700 (PDT) From: John Lingate <jlin2918@yahoo.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quagga OSPF binds to wrong interface on FreeBSD 7 Message-ID: <886514.39448.qm@web58301.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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--- On Thu, 8/28/08, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: Quagga OSPF binds to wrong interface on FreeBSD 7 To: jlin2918@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 11:56 PM John Lingate wrote: > This bug was reported around the release of FreeBSD 7, but does not seem to have made any progress.=20 >=20 > http://bugzilla.quagga.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3D420 >=20 > Is this because the sockopt.c.diff patch is correct, which isn't > entirely clear from the following comments, or is there some other > solution to this problem? Thanks! the change in quesiton is in the QUAGGA code not in the BSD code. Well, obviously.=A0 However, there are also links to changes that can be ma= de to the BSD code, and apparently this whole issue was precipitated by a c= hange to the BSD kernel interface for multicast. There does not appear to be a consensus as to what the correct fix is, and = the patch in question has not been integrated on the Quagga end after 9 mon= ths.=A0 As best I can make out, it seems like the sockopt.c.diff patch (for= Quagga) might be correct, but then it is not clear why this isn't being in= cluded with Quagga. It seemed reasonable to ask for an opinion from people who might understand= the code, history, RFC's, and nuances better than I.=A0=20 That's why I asked about correctness of the patch, or whether another fix w= as more appropriate.=A0 A patch to the Quagga code isn't necessarily correc= t just because it's a patch to the Quagga code, just as a patch to FreeBSD = isn't necessarily correct just because it's a patch to FreeBSD. =0A=0A=0A
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