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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:02:53 -0300 (EST)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   kern/7115: bug in kernel vif byte count
Message-ID:  <199806291802.PAA12811@roma.coe.ufrj.br>

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>Number:         7115
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       vif statistics show wrong byte count
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 29 11:10:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joao Carlos Mendes Luis
>Organization:
COPPE/UFRJ
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386
>Environment:

	Any multicast routing machine.  My environment is 2.2-stable,
	but the bug seems to exist both in 2.1 and 3.0-current.

>Description:

	Byte count statistics of multicast vifs are invalid.
	The problem is caused by a wrong endianess in the sum.

>How-To-Repeat:


>Fix:
	
	Apply this patch:

--- /sys/netinet/ip_mroute.c	Sat Jul 19 17:09:09 1997
+++ ip_mroute.c.new	Mon Jun 29 14:23:17 1998
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@
     register struct ip  *ip = mtod(m, struct ip *);
     register vifi_t vifi;
     register struct vif *vifp;
-    register int plen = ntohs(ip->ip_len);
+    register int plen = ip->ip_len;
 
 /*
  * Macro to send packet on vif.  Since RSVP packets don't get counted on

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