From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 13:57:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD9216A4CF; Thu, 20 May 2004 13:57:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darkness.comp.waw.pl (darkness.comp.waw.pl [195.117.238.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB8E243D3F; Thu, 20 May 2004 13:57:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjd@darkness.comp.waw.pl) Received: by darkness.comp.waw.pl (Postfix, from userid 1009) id 3AA8AAC995; Thu, 20 May 2004 22:57:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 22:57:37 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Andre Oppermann Message-ID: <20040520205737.GW845@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <20040518092439.GF845@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040518024346.A5068@xorpc.icir.org> <20040518100503.GG845@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040518034756.A9648@xorpc.icir.org> <20040520152127.GP845@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <40AD1B39.AAF75D9D@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/O0dDd4i/4YhZnsV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40AD1B39.AAF75D9D@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386 cc: Luigi Rizzo cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ia_netbroadcast X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 20:57:39 -0000 --/O0dDd4i/4YhZnsV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:55:21PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: +> > Ok, this patch: +> >=20 +> > http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/no_old_style_nets.patch +> >=20 +> > removes ia_netbroadcast, ia_net, ia_netmask field from structure +> > in_ifaddr and removes sysctl net.inet.ip.subnets_are_local as suggested +> > in commit log of revision 1.24 of file netinet/in.c: +> >=20 +> > Set subnetsarelocal to false. In a classless world, the other case +> > is almost never useful. (This is only a quick hack; someone should +> > go back and delete the entire subnetsarelocal=3D=3D1 code path.) +> >=20 +> > Tests and comments are welcome. +>=20 +> I have checked that at least Win2k doesn't use the classful broadcast +> address anymore. I don't know about older versions of Windows. +>=20 +> However I'm not yet sure we (better I) understand all implications of +> removing the things you do in your patch. Please hold off for a moment +> until I've finished thinking and looking through the implications. Don't worry. I'm not going to commit it before I hear clear "Go ahead!". --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --/O0dDd4i/4YhZnsV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFArRvBForvXbEpPzQRArHWAKDEk5Puq0OUDGpy2x0TRgCMpMemcgCfc6Ur NUG0S8cmF3X9dKr1b1IamjM= =EZbh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/O0dDd4i/4YhZnsV--