Peter Memishian wrote:
> [ This is unrelated to the original topic; changing subject.  It'd be nice
>   if we could stay on-point. ]
>
>  > >  > 2) I did find *one* potential issue in ON, which is that struct 
>  > >  > iftun_req has a size of 600.  All other ioctls defined in ON header 
>  > >  > files use sizes that won't be truncated.    The ioctls impacted are 
>  > >  > SIOCGTUNPARAM and SIOCSTUNPARAM.
>  > >
>  > > FWLIW, those ioctls are gone in the Clearview gate and will be gone from
>  > > ON when Clearview IP Tunneling integrates.
>  > 
>  > OK, so let me ask a dumb question.  If the ioctls are gone, are they 
>  > used by any code outside of ON?  They are certainly documented in 
>  > tun(7M), but I'm inclined to believe that nothing uses them.
>
> Right, nothing uses them that we're aware of.
>
>  > One of my biggest concerns, though, is punchin.  I don't know if punchin 
>  > makes use of them at all.  (Dan McDonald: can you comment?)
>
> Dan McDonald has been an honorary member of our team on the tunneling
> work and is well aware of the changes.
>
>   

Yay.  I'm very happy about this.

I'll send out a flag day notice, but at the moment, I'm inclined to take 
no action at all.

    -- Garrett
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