netstat and ipv6
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Fri Jul 14 22:40:00 UTC 2006
Gary Palmer wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>
>>is ther ean official way that netstat should be using to NOT try fo ipv6
>>stuff?
>>
>>
>>%netstat -s>/dev/null
>>Warning: sysctl(net.inet6.ip6.rip6stats): No such file or directory
>>
>>
>
>doesn't the
>
>-f inet
>
>parameter stop that?
>
>
yeah but I shouldn't have to say that..
It doesn't complain about the fact that appletalk isn't compiled into
the system..
I put forward the following patch:
nutmeg:rjulian 33] cvs diff -u
cvs server: Diffing .
Index: inet6.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/freebsd/src/usr.bin/netstat/inet6.c,v
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -r1.25 inet6.c
--- inet6.c 28 Jul 2004 16:03:12 -0000 1.25
+++ inet6.c 14 Jul 2006 22:39:08 -0000
@@ -1030,7 +1030,9 @@
mib[3] = IPV6CTL_RIP6STATS;
l = sizeof(rip6stat);
if (sysctl(mib, 4, &rip6stat, &l, NULL, 0) < 0) {
- perror("Warning: sysctl(net.inet6.ip6.rip6stats)");
+ /* Just shut up if the kernel doesn't have ipv6. */
+ if (errno != ENOENT)
+ perror("Warning: sysctl(net.inet6.ip6.rip6stats)");
return;
}
nutmeg:rjulian 34] pwd
/build/master/usr/src/usr.bin/netstat
nutmeg:rjulian 35]
>Gary
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