Subject: Re: dhcpd
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/13/2007 09:55:30
Greg Troxel wrote:

>   [dhclient fails with sys/net/if.c 1.200]
> 
> The real problem is that SIOCGIFCONF never had a real API definition.
> 
> I think the right fix is to change dhcp to use sizeof (ifreq.ifr_ifru)
> instead of sockaddr for deciding if more space is needed.  This declares
> that we follow the 2nd choice of what the API used to be.

Is it possible to fix this somehow without breaking binary compatibility?

Simon.