From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org>,
Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:16:17 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010906201617.60F60BC06C@spike.porcupine.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15f57F-0000L2-00@the-village.bc.nu> "from Alan Cox at Sep 6, 2001 08:47:09 pm"
Alan Cox:
> > If the kernel knows about subnets, then an application should be
> > able to find out about them. Whether or not you agree with the
> > application's reasons does not matter.
>
> There I agree - entirely. I'd also say that an application using legacy
> 4.3BSD API's ought to get correct answers for configurations which are
> validly expressed in that specific worldview
Putting on a different hat, that of forensics and auditing, I would
claim that such functionality is useful for every API. If something
can be set, then there must be a corresponding way to find out.
For settings created with *netlink, it is entirely reasonable to
use the *netlink API to query its state. It's just a pain in the
butt for people like me to find out and advise users.
Wietse
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2001-09-05 19:26 ` ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 Andi Kleen
2001-09-06 13:11 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-06 13:35 ` Andrey Savochkin
2001-09-06 14:04 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 14:21 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-06 15:37 ` notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19] Andrey Savochkin
2001-09-06 15:58 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 16:39 ` notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias Alan Cox
2001-09-06 16:45 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 16:44 ` notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19] Andrey Savochkin
2001-09-06 16:47 ` Andi Kleen
2001-09-06 17:04 ` Andrey Savochkin
2001-09-06 16:50 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 17:01 ` notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias Alan Cox
2001-09-06 17:23 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 17:45 ` Charles Cazabon
2001-09-06 19:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-06 19:41 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 20:18 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-06 20:11 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-06 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-06 20:31 ` Andi Kleen
2001-09-06 20:52 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-07 9:06 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-09-07 8:52 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2001-09-08 16:31 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 18:11 ` Steve VanDevender
2001-09-06 18:25 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 19:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-06 20:16 ` Wietse Venema [this message]
2001-09-06 19:10 ` Steve VanDevender
2001-09-13 14:35 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-06 17:03 ` notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19] Andi Kleen
2001-09-06 17:23 ` Andrey Savochkin
2001-09-06 17:39 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 18:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-07 1:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-07 5:48 ` notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip aliasbug " Ben Greear
2001-09-07 5:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-17 21:39 ` Ben Greear
2001-09-07 6:26 ` Andrey Savochkin
2001-09-07 6:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-06 19:15 ` notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug " dean gaudet
2001-09-06 19:33 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 20:51 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-09-07 7:29 ` Andrey Savochkin
2001-09-07 7:35 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-07 10:30 ` Mike Jagdis
2001-09-07 11:04 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-07 15:34 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-09-08 13:16 ` notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias Kai Henningsen
2001-09-06 18:20 ` notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19] H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-06 16:01 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-06 16:38 ` Andrey Savochkin
2001-09-06 16:43 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 17:03 ` Charles Cazabon
2001-09-06 17:05 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-09-06 17:37 ` Andrey Savochkin
2001-09-06 17:55 ` kuznet
2001-09-06 14:51 ` ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 Alan Cox
2001-09-06 14:17 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-08 12:42 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-09-09 0:37 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-06 17:39 notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias Sam James
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