Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:10:09 -0700 From: peter bartoli <peter@alphafight.net> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug in port security/nbaudit ... Message-ID: <C59A7969-B0C7-11D7-BE31-000393D16F58@alphafight.net> In-Reply-To: <20030707220207.GI44762@funkthat.com>
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On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 03:02 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Inform the nbaudit author that he is not using a proper data type to > represent an ip address. He is probably using u_long instead of > in-addr_t > (aka uint32_t). (This doesn't show up since the alpha is little endian > and luckily sticks the "ip" in the proper place.) You are correct; looking over the code, he is using u_long ... > His program is broken on all LP64 big endian platforms. ... however nbaudit (AKA nat) is one of those that's still useful, but hasn't been updated by the original author since release. Problems since have been fixed with patches, at least in the OpenBSD ports tree ... I can see no patches in the FreeBSD port. Is this better referred to ports@freebsd.org or to the "whom" in the port Makefile? # Date created: Mon Feb 03, 1997 # Whom: David O'Brien (obrien@NUXI.com) ________________________________________________________________________ ____ Peter Bartoli, CTO PO Box 12714 Alphafight Heavy Industries San Diego CA 92112-3714 http://www.alphafight.net voice 619.702.1071 fax 619.702.9237 ________________________________________________________________________ ____
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