cvs commit: ports/net/scotty3/files patch-unix:nmicmpd.c

[Mark Linimon]

linimon     2004/02/13 01:31:58 PST

  FreeBSD ports repository

  Added files:
    net/scotty3/files    patch-unix:nmicmpd.c 
  Log:
  If you attempt to send an ICMP echo to a host on the same ethernet
  subnet, and that host is down/turned off, the Tnm::icmp echo command
  will fail rather than return an unreachable indication on some
  occasions.  This is because the nmicmpd program will occasionally
  get an EHOSTDOWN error when doing a sendto() when the ARP entry
  resolution times out.
  
  This is a problem since this API can support a list of hosts to
  send traffic to, and a single error as described will abort the
  entire operation.
  
  (The reviewer claims that he could not duplicate the problem,
  but that the patch seems like a good idea anyway.)
  PR:             ports/24940
  Submitted by:   Louis Mamakos <louie at transsys.com>
  Reviewed by:    Stefan Eßer <se at FreeBSD.org>
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.1       +17 -0     ports/net/scotty3/files/patch-unix:nmicmpd.c (new)