Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19

[Andi Kleen]

[Sending a similar mail for the third time now; you conveniently chosed 
to ignore all earlier ones of me in the discussion. I will not send another
one, but just quietly think "Wietse is a moron" before forgetting the issue]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:23:26PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> On a more serious note, what portable primitives does Linux offer
> to look up all interface IP addresses and their corresponding
> netmasks?

man rtnetlink 7

> The primitives used in Postfix work on all supported systems, except
> for Linux where they work partially.
> 
> Portability is a relative thing - it would be wonderful already if
> your primitive supports the past three years of kernel releases.

It does (Since 2.1.x;x>=2x or so)

-Andi