The original code was certainly broken; it knows that whereto is
to be used for a sockaddr_in, so it should be declared as such.
To support multiple protocols, there is also a sockaddr_storage
struct that can be used; I don't think struct sockaddr is supposed
to be used anywhere other than for casts and pointers.
Submitted by: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
MFC after: 3 weeks
This one is strange and goes against my rusty compiler knowledge.
The global declaration
struct sockaddr whereto;
produces for both i386 && alpha:
.comm whereto,16,1
which means common storage, byte aligned. Ahem. I though structs
were supposed to be ALDOUBLE always? I mean, w/o pragma packed?
Later on, this address is coerced to:
to = (struct sockaddr_in *)&whereto;
Up until now, we've been fine on alpha because the address
just ended up aligned to a 4 byte boundary. Lately, though,
it end up as:
0000000120027b0f B whereto
And, tra la, you get unaligned access faults. The solution I picked, in
lieu of understanding what the compiler was doing, is to put whereto
as a union of a sockaddr and sockaddr_in. That's more formally correct
if somewhat awkward looking.
user runs with privilege, allowing the sending of icmp packets with
larger size (up to 48k, the default receive buffer size in ping),
which is useful for network driver development testing, as well
as experimentation with fragmentation.
Reviewed by: wpaul
add an upper limit to -t
match the types of return values and the variables they are stuffed in
make the man page and usage() a little more consistantly ugly
less obfuscation.
Submitted by: adrian, billf
o main returns int not void
o use braces to avoid potentially ambiguous else
Note: The fix to natd is potentially functional in nature since I used
the indentation as the right thing rather than the struct semantics.
Someone more familiar with the code should double check me on this one.
Reviewed by: obrien and chuckr
In the words of the submitter:
"The patch below allows to ping from any address on the multihomed host.
The man page is also updated, the text was cutted from traceroute(8)."
Submitted by: Ruslan Ermilov
PR: 6832
extremely useful for networking testing. Other options secured from
user-level D.O.S. attacks. -f, -s now root-only. -i wait times < 1.0
root-only. -c count limited to 100 and defaults to 16 when ping run
by non-root user.
Fixes bin/6649 and removes the last abusive signal handler.
Use SO_TIMESTAMP to get the kernel to timestamp packets on reception.
Fixes bin/5658 and provides slightly better accuracy.
Explicitly zero and terminate the IP options when using -R.
PR: bin/5658
PR: bin/6649
are unaligned for access by the alpha, so copy the value to a variable
that is aligned.
When checking the returned data, be careful to avoid confusing the
size of the icmp header with the size of a timeval. On i386 these
are both 8, but on alpha, a timeval is 16 bytes. This means that
a packet sent from an alpha contains 48 bytes of data, not 56 like
on i386.
