[avahi] avahi on Linux uses incorrect address for P-t-P interface

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 16.01.11 10:51, Matt Ginzton (magi at cs.stanford.edu) wrote:

> Hi,

Heya,

> 
> I sent a less knowledgeable question about avahi-daemon and
> point-to-point links a few days ago,
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2011-January/001969.html. When
> I didn't get a response to this, I decided to build avahi from source
> and step through it and see how it builds its list of interfaces and
> their addresses.
> 

Thanks a lot. Applied.

Sorry for the long delay!

The reason why I had IFA_ADDRESS there is because the rtnetlink(7) man
page is not helpful in this regarding, and since we don't really support
ptp links anyway nobody ever noticed.

> --- iface-linux.c.orig	2011-01-16 10:43:19.928941366 -0800
> +++ iface-linux.c	2011-01-16 10:44:53.802731728 -0800
> @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
>          while (RTA_OK(a, l)) {
>  
>              switch(a->rta_type) {
> -                case IFA_ADDRESS:
> +                case IFA_LOCAL:
>                      /* Fill in address data */
>  
>                      if ((raddr.proto == AVAHI_PROTO_INET6 && RTA_PAYLOAD(a) != 16) ||
> 
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Lennart

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