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Re: IPv4 Address Flags



> On Apr 22, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> In article <55381013.6070403%marples.name@localhost>,
> Roy Marples  <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
>> diff -u -r1.188 if.h
>> --- sys/net/if.h	20 Apr 2015 10:19:54 -0000	1.188
>> +++ sys/net/if.h	22 Apr 2015 21:03:01 -0000
>> @@ -594,6 +594,7 @@
>> 		struct	sockaddr ifru_broadaddr;
>> 		struct	sockaddr_storage ifru_space;
>> 		short	ifru_flags;
>> +		int	ifru_addrflags;
>> 		int	ifru_metric;
> 
> This is an ABI change to all ifreq ioctls... If you are going to do this,
> I'd bite the bullet and bump sockaddr_storage to 256 or 512 bytes and get
> rid of sockaddr_big.

Not really since that’s in a union.

No ABI change.


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