Hello!
While building the iproute package in Debian I get warnings from
package helpers like this:
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/iproute/sbin/tc debian/iproute/usr/bin/lnstat debian/iproute/bin/ip debian/iproute/bin/ss debian/iproute/sbin/bridge debian/iproute/sbin/rtmon were not linked against libresolv.so.2 (they use none of the library's symbols)
The -lresolv in ./Makefile seems to come from pre-historic times (before
iproute2 git history, possibly from libc5/pre-glibc days).
I couldn't find out if/why there was any reason for linking to libresolv.
Does anyone know if there are any valid reasons for keeping it still?
If not, I'd be happy to see it go.... while at it I also removed includes
of <resolv.h> which I also couldn't find any reason for, but this is
just an added bonus of the patch (and there are probably more unneeded
includes that could be dropped in the same sources).
Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
The get_jiffies() function retrieves rtt-type values in units of
milliseconds. This patch updates the function name accordingly,
following the pattern given by dst_metric() <=> dst_metric_rtt().
Since July 2008 (2.6.27, c1e20f7c8b9), the kernel stores the values for
RTAX_{RTT{,VAR},RTO_MIN} in milliseconds. When using a kernel > 2.6.27 with
the current iproute2, conversion of these values is broken in either way.
This patch
* updates the code to pass and retrieve milliseconds;
* since values < 1msec would be rounded up, also drops the usec/nsec variants;
* since there is no way to query kernel HZ, also drops the jiffies variant.
Arguments such as
rtt 3.23sec
rto_min 0xff
rto_min 0.200s
rttvar 25ms
now all work as expected when reading back previously set values.
Handle 10/8 as 10.0.0.0/8 and check for bogus values like 256/8.
This is a comprimise between original iproute2 parsing and standard BSD
parsing of abbreviated IPV4 addresses.
Commit 516ffb6b77 says:
Stephen Hemminger [Thu, 22 May 2008 20:41:40 +0000 (13:41 -0700)]
> Use the standard POSIX inet_pton to convert from string to IPV4
> address. This avoids problems where ip parses "127.2" wrong.
Apparently inet_pton doesn't support abbreviated/shortened/classful
ipv4 addresses at all, but inet_aton does.
Since the function only deals with AF_INET anyway maybe using
inet_aton "to increse backwards compatability" (please those
who still want to use the format) could be considered?
(This will still not restore the 10/8 format which apparently used
to work in iproute, so people would have to settle for 10.0/8)
(See http://bugs.debian.org/497011)
On tor, 2007-12-06 at 11:53 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 14:58:18 +0100
> Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se> wrote:
>
> > Suggested patch for allowing netmask to be specified in dotted quad format.
> > See http://bugs.debian.org/357172
> >
> > (Known problem: this will not prevent some invalid syntaxes,
> > ie. "255.0.255.0" will be treated as "255.255.255.0")
> >
> > Comments? Suggestions? Improvements?
>
> Fix the bug you mentioned?
>
> [... snip example code ...]
Updated patch, added your netmask validation code but without the check
that made 0.0.0.0 (default) and 255.255.255.255 (one address) invalid
netmasks as they are permitted in CIDR format.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
The problem was that length of allocation changed but caller not told.
Anyway, the patch fixes a problem resulting in a double free
that occurs when using batch files that contains a special combination
of broken up lines and comments as reported in:
http://bugs.debian.org/398912
Thanks to Michal Pokrywka <mpokrywka@hoga.pl> for testcase and information
on which conditions problem could be reproduced under.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Enable users of ip to specify the times for rtt, rttvar and rto_min
in human-friendly terms a la "tc" while maintaining backwards
compatability with the previous "raw" mechanism. Builds upon
David Miller's uncommited patch to set rto_min.
Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
