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>
