Re: HEADSUP: arp-v2 has been committed

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 06:01:35AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> The code in question on the Wine side is
> 
> #if defined(HAVE_SYS_SYSCTL_H) && defined(NET_RT_DUMP)
>   int mib[] = {CTL_NET, PF_ROUTE, 0, AF_INET, NET_RT_FLAGS, RTF_LLINFO};
> 
> and there is nothing FreeBSD-specific in dlls/iphlpapi/ipstats.c as far
> as I can see.  
> 
> If the arp-v2 update now made us incompatible both with earlier versions 
> of FreeBSD and Linux, that sounds like something that should be fixed 
> (instead of hacking applications like Wine).
> 
> On the other hand, the commit message at
>   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/net/route.h
> explicitly says
>   The change in design obsoletes the semantics of RTF_CLONING, 
>   RTF_WASCLONE and RTF_LLINFO routing flags. The userland applications 
>   such as "arp" and "ndp" have been modified to reflect those changes.
> so I guess it's not so easy.  
> 
> How many other ports are affected?
> 
The latest full run with HEAD from a few days back hasn't quite finished
yet, so there might turn up a few more, but so far it's just a handful:

net/libdnet
devel/libpdel
net-mgmt/net-snmp
net/netwib
net/p5-Net-RawIP
net-mgmt/net-snmp4
emulators/wine

Cheers,
-erwin

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