On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:02:20AM -0700, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:50:40AM +0200, Max Laier wrote: > > My question now is, what would be a good place to define this? Are there any > > fromal standarts that might define it already? (Couldn't find anything) Is > > there anything else that I must consider? > > I think Brooks' recommendation is sound and should probably be followed > as it's fairly close to my original recommendation to you in private. > > The problem is that the definition of the union depends on what you wish > to use it for, and which address families are visible to the application > or kernel module which is using the definition.
The real problem may be that KAME mistakenly gave sockaddr_union a general name when it isn't and such a type would be hell to actually work with. A custom union that does exactly what pf needs may be the best approach. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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