sunrpc/svc_udp.c (IP_PKTINFO) broken

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Sat, Sep 23, H . J . Lu wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 09:59:34PM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the following patch:
> > 
> > 2000-02-17  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>
> > 
> >         * sunrpc/rpc/svc.h (SVCXPRT): Add a "xp_pad" field at the end.
> > 
> >         * sunrpc/svc_udp.c (svcudp_bufcreate): Turn on IP_PKTINFO if
> >         available.
> >         (svcudp_recv): Set up message with the new "xp_pad" field for
> >         IP_PKTINFO.
> >         (svcudp_reply): Support IP_PKTINFO if available.
> > 
> > breaks RPC/udp connections on SPARC. Run ypbind on SPARC and
> > try to run ypwhich to reproduce it.
> > Can anybody look at it who knows something about IP_PKTINFO ?
> > Has anybody tested this on other architectures ?
> 
> We have been using it on ia32 with glibc 2.1. Otherwise, RPC over UDP
> won't work with IP aliases cross a firwall. I will check it out on
> ia32 with glibc 2.2 next week.

It works fine on ia32. It does not work on sparc and sparc64. I
don't know if it is a bigendian problem or if IP_PKTINFO does not
work on SPARC.

  Thorsten

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