Re: Faure is back..
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> > I do know that UltraSparc is one of our problem platforms for IPv6, the
> > 32<->64 bit conversions mess up the v6 addresses - the fix for that is
> > supposed to be what causes the above - anyone know any more specifics?
> Hmmm...AFAIR, there shouldn't be any conversions happening. It's all
> heavily typed to prevent it (nothing should be using a 64-bit type if a
> 32-bit type is needed). If it's a kernel change, though, I'll
> look for it and see what's going on with that.
UltraSPARC is funny because it has a 64bit kernel and a 32bit userland.
When an address is passed between them it gets realigned and such. This
primarily seemed to effect ioctls and netlink, so alot of the
route/address control stuff just didn't work right.
DaveM was supposidly looking into it and I saw some patches from him in
the change logs a bit ago..
Jason
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