Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 15:14:59 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij), jcl@pavilion.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple delivery of UDP and IP aliases Message-ID: <199607012215.PAA01099@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jul 1996 13:13:07 CDT." <199607011813.NAA15675@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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>> I made a fix. However, I believ this was fixed in 2.1R. > >I don't believe it was, because when I first mentioned it, it was because >I had upgraded one of my key machines from 2.0R to 2.1R... I do have this >applied as a patch to the machine in question, and the machine is running >2.1.0-RELEASE, and it no longer exhibits this behaviour.. > >> In 2.1, an alias has an associated netmask of all-ones. >> In the udp code, a packet to an address is always checked to >> be a broadcast address using in_broadcast(). For an all-one >> netmask, this succeeds where it should not. >> I `fixed' this by adding a check for the all-one netmask in >> in_broadcast(). This is fixed in 2.1. >> The following patch should fix it on 2.05: > >The patch does work but I swear you need it for 2.1R as well ;-) Joe is right - the fix didn't go in -stable until several months after the 2.1.0 release. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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