Re: Ip::Address::IsAnyAddr

From: Tsantilas Christos <chtsanti_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:05:57 +0300

On 07/26/2011 02:01 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:59:48 +0300, Tsantilas Christos wrote:
>> I am sending a version 4 of the patch which is the same with Amos
>> patch but is a little smaller. IT is easier to see the changes.
>>
>>
>> But applying this patch I found some problems in icp* related code.
>> This problems has as result an assertion failure inside icp code.
>> I am attaching a patch which is required to allow icp works with
>> isAnyAddr patch, but maybe fixes bugs.
>>
>> From what I can understand reading about the icp protocol, it
>> supports only the IPv4 protocol: It contains in icp messages header a
>> 32bit number which represents the ip address of sender. This is mean
>> that only ipv4 addresses can used.
>>
>> The icp-isanyaddr.patch:
>> 1) Use the ip::Address::SetIPv4 method to always convert to IPv4 the
>> ip addresses used to set the hostid field of the ICP header message.
>>
>> 2) Inside neighbors_init() function there is the line:
>> theIcpPublicHostID.GetInAddr( *((struct in_addr*)&echo_hdr.shostid) );
>> The above line sets the hostid field of the header of the icp echo
>> message, to theIcpPublciHostID. The problem is that this ipaddress is
>> not initialized yet. Will be initialized inside
>> icpIncomingConnectionOpened when this function called.
>> The icp-isanyadd.patch replaces the above line with a simple:
>> echo_hdr.shostid = 0;
>> which is absolutely equivalent (but probably not the correct).
>>
>> The icp-isanyaddr.patch is not a finished patch but I am posting it
>> here to show two (possible) problems:
>> - The icp does not work with IPv4 so we may add checks to prevent
>> using ipv6 addresses
>> - The echo_hdr message initialized with an IP address which is not
>> initialized yet.
>>
>
> What you have so far on the ICP looks correct.

OK I post a separate patch for icp.

Is it OK to commit the isAnyAddr patch to trunk?

>
> Amos
>
>
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