Re: netconfig not working

[Mark . Burgess]

On 24 May, Adrian Phillips wrote:
>>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> writes:
> 
>     Mark> This mail doesn't make much sense to me,I'm afraid. It is
>     Mark> hard to see what is going on here.
> 
> The only additional comment I have is that Redhat's glibc 2.2.5 may
> not be the same as Debian's. Certainly a postgresql mktime problem has
> appeared which Debian's 2.2.5 has no problems, but Redhat's does
> (because its been changed in CVS and somebody included the CVS version
> in Redhat). Whether this has any applicability to this case I have no
> idea and no time currently to debug it,
> 
>     Mark> As regards ifconf in general, I think a radically different
>     Mark> approach will be needed in future. THese ioctl calls are
>     Mark> unreliable and non-standard, and they don't support ipv6.
> 
> Is there a "standard" way of configuring Unix networks ?


Alas, no ... :(



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