Issue with gdmchooser (2.20.6)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 20:02 +0800, Volker Stolz wrote:
> Sigh, it took the whole day to track down why XDMCP wasn't working:
> just like NetBSD, we need to disable the IPV6_V6ONLY socket option
> first, otherwise the broadcast to ::ffff:x.x.x.x won't work.
> 
> I'd like to commit the attached patch that
> - hides harmless warnings on FreeBSD: we give ENXIO for non-IP
> interfaces, but that shouldn't worry anyone
> - get XDMCP queries rolling -- without this patch, XdmcpFlush fails
> and no XDMCP packet ever hits the wire. With this patch, I can
> successfully discover all (IPv4) hosts offering remote login on my
> network (nobody speaks IPv6 here yet). The patch is borrowed from
> NetBSD pkgsrc.
> Also bump PORTREVISION.
> 
> 
> I'd also like to submit this upstream.

Approved all around.  Thanks for looking at this.

Joe

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> Volker
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> > On 29.06.2008, at 02:19, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 13:04 +0800, Volker Stolz wrote:
> > > > Hi guys, I was playing with XDMCP and the gdmchooser drops the
> > > > following in syslog when looking for local interfaces to
> > > > broadcast on:
> > > > 
> > > > Jun 23 12:32:13 pc139 gdmchooser[37872]: CRITICAL: Could not get
> > > > SIOCGIFFLAGS for ^\b
> > > > Jun 23 12:32:13 pc139 gdmchooser[37872]: CRITICAL: Could not get
> > > > SIOCGIFFLAGS for 8^R^C
> > > > 
> > > > It looks like there's something going wrong (I'm on 7.0-R with a
> > > > bge0,plip0,lo0), and we don't have the SIOCGIFNUM ioctl anyway.
> > > > Is
> > > > someone interested in getting something like the following patch
> > > > into
> > > > the port and/or upstream? [Note that I usually don't program in
> > > > C ;)]
> > > 
> > > This patch seems pretty intrusive.  However, I appreciate the
> > > report,
> > > and I'll look at creating something more portable.
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