Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:15:13 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: gwq_uk@yahoo.com Cc: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP bug! Message-ID: <200006151715.KAA10865@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20000615135037.28516.qmail@web1401.mail.yahoo.com> from Greg Quinlan at "Jun 15, 0 06:50:37 am"
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As I recall, Greg Quinlan wrote:
> I had a look at the code for pppd and it appears that
> a line in options.c program which I don't completely
> understand (~& does what? right-shift??) is to blame.
The code is "anding" in "not" mask.s_addr (that is, the one's
complement of the mask).
> if ((inet_aton(*argv, &mask)) == -1 || (netmask &
> ~mask.s_addr)) {
> fprintf(stderr, "Invalid netmask %s\n",
> *argv);
> return (0);
> }
-crl
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