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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:11:51 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r271418 - head/sbin/dhclient
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.11.1409110911210.54235@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <201409110548.s8B5md65014322@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201409110548.s8B5md65014322@svn.freebsd.org>

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A bit behind on commits, but: does this mean that an older userspace dhclient 
will no longer work with a newer kernel?

Robert

On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

> Author: glebius
> Date: Thu Sep 11 05:48:39 2014
> New Revision: 271418
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/271418
>
> Log:
>  Since r270929 raw sockets expect network byte order.
>
>  Submitted by:	avg
>
> Modified:
>  head/sbin/dhclient/packet.c
>
> Modified: head/sbin/dhclient/packet.c
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/sbin/dhclient/packet.c	Thu Sep 11 03:16:57 2014	(r271417)
> +++ head/sbin/dhclient/packet.c	Thu Sep 11 05:48:39 2014	(r271418)
> @@ -127,17 +127,6 @@ assemble_udp_ip_header(unsigned char *bu
> 	ip.ip_dst.s_addr = to;
>
> 	ip.ip_sum = wrapsum(checksum((unsigned char *)&ip, sizeof(ip), 0));
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * While the BPF -- used for broadcasts -- expects a "true" IP header
> -	 * with all the bytes in network byte order, the raw socket interface
> -	 * which is used for unicasts expects the ip_len field to be in host
> -	 * byte order.  In both cases, the checksum has to be correct, so this
> -	 * is as good a place as any to turn the bytes around again.
> -	 */
> -	if (to != INADDR_BROADCAST)
> -		ip.ip_len = ntohs(ip.ip_len);
> -
> 	memcpy(&buf[*bufix], &ip, sizeof(ip));
> 	*bufix += sizeof(ip);
>
>
>



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