tag 136384 patch thanks On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:12:07PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 10:58, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include <hallo.h> > > Philip Blundell wrote on Sat Mar 02, 2002 um 10:54:01AM: > > > > This fill fix the latter problem for sure. I don't know if we > > > > will still need to call route, though. > > > > > > No, the kernel should take care of that. > > > > On Ethernet devices, maybe, but for Point-to-Point connection we need > > exact settings of the peer host. > > What is needed beyond the information that ifconfig provides? > > The kernel is able to install routes like this, which seems to be what > the submitter wanted: > > kc:/# route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > Iface > 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > eth0 > 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 > eth0 > kc:/# ifconfig plip0 192.168.44.1 pointopoint 192.168.44.2 > kc:/# route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > Iface > 192.168.44.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 > plip0 > 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > eth0 > 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 > eth0 > kc:/# > > The only route that dbootstrap needs to set up is the default one.
In that case, could someone please apply the following patch,
and mark 136384 pending?
Matt
- pass pointopoint option to ifconfig, closes: 136384
--- netconfig.c.orig Sat Mar 2 07:32:20 2002
+++ netconfig.c Sat Mar 2 07:33:26 2002
@@ -781,6 +781,10 @@ int activate_static_network()
strncat(cmdline, IP4tostr(prtbuf, netmask), MAXLINE-strlen(cmdline)-5);
strncat(cmdline, " broadcast ", MAXLINE-strlen(cmdline)-5);
strncat(cmdline, IP4tostr(prtbuf, broadcast), MAXLINE-strlen(cmdline)-5);
+ if (has_pointopoint) {
+ strncat(cmdline, " pointopoint ", MAXLINE-strlen(cmdline)-5);
+ strncat(cmdline, IP4tostr(ptrbuf, peer), MAXLINE-strlen(cmdline)-5);
+ }
ret = execlog(cmdline, LOG_INFO);
if (has_gw && (ret==0)) {
snprintf(cmdline, MAXLINE-5, "/sbin/route add default gw %s metric 1",
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