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On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:25:20AM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > 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. Can you find out why IP_PKTINFO doesn't work on sparc? As far as I can remember, IP_PKTINFO doesn't do much. My patch only keeps what it is received and sends it back verbatim. The only thing I can think of is alignment. H.J.
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