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From: munnari!sirius.ua.oz.au!mrp@uunet.uu.net (Mark Prior)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Problem with proxyarpd on Sun-4's running SunOS 4.0 (pa
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Date: 12 Dec 88 17:19:42 GMT
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Original-Date: Thu, 1 Dec 88 10:24:55 CST
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 48, message 11 of 12

We had problems with proxyarpd when we tried to run it on our Sun-4, it
dumped core with a bus error then it was queried. Here's a patch that
fixes things (I haven't got around to working out why the original code
doesn't work but it's probably a compiler bug :-))

Mark.

*** proxyarpd.c Fri Nov 18 14:29:10 1988
--- proxyarpd.c.orig    Thu Nov 17 16:26:54 1988
***************
*** 587,595 ****

  #if OS_REV >= 4
!   /*
!    * Original version dumped core
!    * addr = *((u_long*) &arpp->arp_tpa[0]);
!    */
!   bcopy(arpp->arp_tpa,&addr,4);
  #else
    addr = *((u_long*) &arpp->arp_xtpa[0]);
--- 587,591 ----

  #if OS_REV >= 4
!   addr = *((u_long*) &arpp->arp_tpa[0]);
  #else
    addr = *((u_long*) &arpp->arp_xtpa[0]);

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