Bug#219108: [PATCH] using an interface without IP address

   Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:44:47 -0800
   From: Mike Schiffman <[email protected]>

   I'm sorry, what bug does this fix, and which release did you diff
   against? 1.1.2-rc5 has Linux support for interfaces without IP
   addresses. Was there a problem with that code?

   On Feb 27, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Chris Hanson wrote:

   > OK, I've made an appropriate patch to fix the problem, which is
   > attached to this message.  This is a patch against version 1.1.1.
   >
   > I've tested it and as far as I can tell it fixes the problem.  Feel
   > free to massage as needed to fit your style.
   >
   > The next upload of the Debian package will contain this patch, which
   > will close the two bugs filed against it.
   >
   > Chris
   >
   > <libnet_if_addr.c-patch>
   --
   Mike Schiffman, CISSP
   http://www.packetfactory.net/schiffman
   Doveryay No Proveryay

No, now that I look at it you have pretty much the same functionality
there.  As you can see, my previous message says it was a diff against
1.1.1.

My message was a follow-up from this message.  Obviously some more
work got done, but it was not reported back to the recipients of this
message.

Sorry for the confusion.

Chris

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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:21:25 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Raynal?= <[email protected]>
To: Domenico Andreoli <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
	Frederic Raynal <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] using an interface without IP address

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:10:09AM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> Mike Schiffman wrote:
> > Hey guys, just a quick note, this is applied to the latest 1.1.2 tree
> > which I probably will release in the short term to make this
> > functionality available. Thanks to Fred and Ste Jones. This looks like
> > it works!
> > 
> 
> hmmm.. i just compiled 1.1.2rc4 but it does not seem fixed to me :(

Currently, I still havent found the ioct() giving me all the devices,
even those that are down (I even sent a mail to net-linux to get the
solution but got no answer).  So, results bellow are "normal"


> # ifconfig eth1; ifdown eth1; arping -i eth1 192.168.70.70; ifup eth1
> arping: libnet_init(): libnet_select_device(): no such device found: eth1.

Normal, eth1 is down.

> 
> # ifdown eth1; arping -i eth1 192.168.70.70; ifup eth1
> arping: libnet_init(): libnet_select_device(): no such device found: eth1.


Nnormal, eth1 is down.

> 
> # ifdown eth1; ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 up; arping -i eth1 192.168.70.70; ifup
> eth1
> arping: libnet_get_ipaddr4(libnet): libnet_get_ipaddr4(): ioctl(): Cannot
> assign requested address

??? Where does "libnet_get_ipaddr4(libnet)" comes from ?

> 
> #
> 
> here at debian libnet is compiled also as dynamic library so i did not
> recompile arping
> (my patch to achieve dynamic shareds is always available, just ask) to
> produce the above
> results. recompiling arping as static executable anyway does not change them.
> 

Also normal.


If you mean it worked with libnet-1.0 when device is down, I'll have a
look there.

	Fred Raynal