In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:27:51 +0200 (EET)), Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote: > > From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:27:29 +0100 > > > >> Mhh actually this looks intentional: > >> > >> icmpv6_send and some other output functions do: > >> int hlimit; > >> ... > >> if (hlimit < 0) > >> hlimit = dst_metric(dst, RTAX_HOPLIMIT); > >> if (hlimit < 0) > >> hlimit = ipv6_get_hoplimit(dst->dev); > > > > Yep, negative value has a specific meaning. > > Which seems to indicate that the kernel-internal implementation has a > need to store a negative TTL. Reporting it to the userspace as a > negative doesn't seem right though? I think it is better to fix iproute2 instead, 1) to treat the variable as int, or, 2) not to show such variable. --yoshfuji - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
