2007/631 Class E IP Address Configuration

[Sangeeta Misra]

James Carlson wrote:
> Darren Reed writes:
> 
>>The only concern I have had is with strangeness that might happen
>>if 255.255.255.255 is seen as a broadcast address that applies to
>>only one NIC and is not seen to be local to all NICs.
> 
> 
> I don't see how 255.255.255.255 enters into this discussion at all.
> It's not one of the Class E addresses that's part of the case.
> Instead, it's the limited broadcast address.
> 
> You can't plumb it, and still won't be able to once this project
> integrates.  It's outside the scope.  (Perhaps, for completeness, the
> IN_CLASSE macro ought to exclude it explicitly.  That sounds like a
> code review issue, though.)

CLASSE macro does exclude 255.255.255.255.in my code changes.
> 
> 
>>(non-psarc stuff...)
>>Also, we need to fix various commands, e.g. ping, where
>>"ping -s 255.255.255.255" returns an error.  A code sweep to replace
>>inet_addr() with inet_aton() seems required in order to stop broken
>>behaviour.
> 
> 
> "ping -s 255.255.255.255" seems to work fine, at least on Solaris.
> I'm not sure what you're concerned about, but please do file bugs on
> any problems you find.
> 

This is working in nevada, but apparently was broken in S10u2.

Sangeeta