[Dnsmasq-discuss] v2.34 on Openbsd 4.0 (fix)
Jeb Campbell
jebc at c4solutions.net
Fri Oct 20 17:16:24 BST 2006
Simon Kelley wrote:
> No, your tests give as much information as the ktrace would. I wonder
> which it's not working: the code seems to be there in the OpenBSD kernel
> to implement IP_RECVIF. I'll install 4.0 under qemu and have a poke around.
>
> I'm reluctant to just always disable this under openBSD: using IP_RECVIF
> is much better than not: I guess I'll have to add code to fall-back at
> runtime on a broken system. Sigh.
Let me know if there is anything I can do to help (test, debug, etc).
> The main motivation for getting rid of it is that it's a hack which
> depends on the ISC leasefile format not changing, and is rather
> race-condition prone. Very few people use it, and it's quite likely that
> it will get inadvertently broken. My plan is to remove it in the first
> release after Debian "etch", which might well be 2.35.
Thank you for the info and your time,
Jeb
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