From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 11:33:50 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA02931 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 11:33:50 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA02924 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 11:33:42 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA27321; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 20:33:02 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA03732; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 20:32:59 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA16054; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:43:56 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506201743.TAA16054@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: more gritching on the net.. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:43:55 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: nickkral@sextans.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506201302.OAA13261@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 20, 95 02:02:22 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1451 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > From: nickkral@sextans.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) [I'm also Cc'ing him] > BTW, the bugs and non-features are: > Inability to turn on or off BROADCAST or POINTOPOINT flag for > loopback device. Look at my Usenet reply. The actual error is his interesting idea to set the loopback device to ``BROADCAST''. Unlike Linux (where one might consider _this_ a bug), some of the interface flags in BSD are considered inherent to any particular interface type and cannot be changed (since it doesn't make any sense to change them from outside), IFF_BROADCAST is one of them. The bug on BSD's side is that ifconfig doesn't complain if some bozo tries to ifconfig lo0 broadcast 127.255.255.255 (what he did). > Packets are still transmitted even though the UP flag is not turned > on in an interface. Well, this is a bug, but rather a very low priority one (since i think it does no harm to anybody). > non-feature: The "rwhod" doesn't check connections to make sure they > are still valid before sending packets out. Since Nick promised to fix this for Linux, i've publically hinted him that it would be only fair to send the bug fix also to one of the BSD camps (since it's concerning a source where Linux didn't bother to take it from BSD). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)