Hi all,

I didn't receive any response to this query, so am attaching the patch 
to this message regardless in the hope that it might be useful to someone.

This patch is largely based on the pppd BSD code by Jun-ichiro itojun 
Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>.

Jamie

James Teh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The Linux specific get_ether_addr() function in pppd uses ioctl to get 
> the netmask for an interface by interface name. Unfortunately, using the 
> ip command, multiple addresses don't receive separate interface labels, 
> which means that get_ether_addr() can only ever obtain the netmask for 
> the first address on each in terface. This causes proxy arp to fail in 
> certain cases when there are multiple addresses on the interface in 
> question; specifically, when the subnet mask of the first address on the 
> interface is smaller than the netmask of the desired address.
> 
> This can be worked around by using ip with the "label" parameter to 
> label each interface separately, but this is undesirable, as it means 
> unique labels need to be generated.
> 
> I have created a patch (largely borrowed from BSD) which uses 
> getifaddrs() instead of get_ether_addr() to get the netmask. This way, 
> the netmask for the specific address of the interface can be obtained.
> 
> Is this the appropriate place to submit this patch? I looked through the 
> documentation, but found no mention of where patches should be submitted.
> 
> -- 
> James Teh
> Developer
> NetBox Blue
> 

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