ifconfig(8) mediaopt bug and temporary fix

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:15:55AM +0200, Sten Spans wrote:
 > On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
 > 
 > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:11:32PM +0900, To sparc64 at freebsd.org wrote:
 > >
 > > Here is better patch. This should fix the two bugs of ifconfig(8)
 > > on big-endian machines.
 > >
 > >
 > > bug #1
 > >  When mediaopt full-duplex was set, global variable ifr.ifr_media
 > >  is set to selected media option. Therefore the next reference to
 > >  "ifr.ifr_addr.sa_family" is wrong since the value was overwritten
 > >  by selected media option.
 > >
 > > bug #2
 > >  According to bug #1, "ifr.ifr_addr.sa_family" now has the value
 > >  AF_APPLETALK. So checkatrange() is called and "addreq.ifra_addr"
 > >  is modified. Now if ifconfig(8) has a new address to set, it
 > >  incorrectly use the corrupted "addreq". This yield bind(2)
 > >  error(EADDRNOTAVAIL) for assigned IP address.
 > >
 > 
 > Cool. Let's hope this gets committed soon.
 > This bug was a big pita when you have al your
 > cisco's set to 100/fd.
 > 
 > Thanks for the debugging.
 > 

I'll commit it monday after receiving approval of mentors.

 > -- 
 > Sten Spans
 > 
 > "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
 > Leonard Cohen - Anthem

Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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Pyun YongHyeon <http://www.kr.freebsd.org/~yongari>