On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:55:21PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: +> > Ok, this patch: +> > +> > http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/no_old_style_nets.patch +> > +> > removes ia_netbroadcast, ia_net, ia_netmask field from structure +> > in_ifaddr and removes sysctl net.inet.ip.subnets_are_local as suggested +> > in commit log of revision 1.24 of file netinet/in.c: +> > +> > Set subnetsarelocal to false. In a classless world, the other case +> > is almost never useful. (This is only a quick hack; someone should +> > go back and delete the entire subnetsarelocal==1 code path.) +> > +> > Tests and comments are welcome. +> +> I have checked that at least Win2k doesn't use the classful broadcast +> address anymore. I don't know about older versions of Windows. +> +> However I'm not yet sure we (better I) understand all implications of +> removing the things you do in your patch. Please hold off for a moment +> until I've finished thinking and looking through the implications.
Don't worry. I'm not going to commit it before I hear clear "Go ahead!". -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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