Linux-Hams archive - December 1997: Re: PPP and Proxy-Arp (fwd)

Re: PPP and Proxy-Arp (fwd)

Bob Lorenzini (cdmgjcas@0804.vip.at)
Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:01:49 -0800 (PST)


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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 20:48:36 +0300 (MSK)
From: "A.N.Kuznetsov" <rhmkut@kerailya.tunkki.fi>
To: rznozzyc@signature.edu
Cc: qadazp.tmikhagr@uvigo.es
Subject: Re: PPP and Proxy-Arp

Hello!

> Linux 2.1.70 now has new networking problems. The PPP Problem has
> apparently been reported, however I have not found how how to fix it.

What problem do you mean?

> There are, however, additional problems.....
>
> (1) SOCK_PACKET does not fail, but writes an error to the debug log.

It is not an error. It is warning.

> ...Question... What replaces SOCK_PACKET?

It should use (AF_PACKET,SOCK_DGRAM) rather than (AF_INET,SOCK_PACKET).
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Alan ax25-utils-2.1.42a/kiss/kissparms seems to suffer this problem as
well. I get this warning (everything is still working):

Dec 3 19:26:42 mm kernel: kissparms uses obsolete (AF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)

Also an ax25 static arp is failing to take again in 2.1.4x - 5x? or so.
No big deal but you ought to know.

Bob - wd6dod