On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2009-11-04 22:50, Chini, Georg (HP App Services) wrote: > >> > >>I'm using ipset 3.2 on a sparc64 system (ultra2), kernel 2.6.31.5, Debian 5. > >>Everything works fine, but the -L option shows strange values for a portmap. > > > > > >If you explicitly compile ipset as a 64-bit program rather than the > >32-bit default that is used on sparc, will the correct values be > >shown? > > > >Thanks for the fast reply. I added -m64 to cc and ld options and > >recompiled. Is that correct? If yes, I now get a bus error instead > >of a wrong listing. Or do I have to change anything else? > > Bus error means something was not quite correctly aligned > (yet another ipset bug). > > The lack of cheap access to big-endian, alignment-sensitive hardware > means many codes do not get the testing they deserve :-/ Yes, that's exaxtly. Funnily enough a few years ago I toyed the idea to buy a thrown out SPARCCenter2000 but I didn't have enough power in my place to boot up such a machine... > To workaround the alignedness issue, you could take an x86_64 machine > and compile a strictly 32-bit ipset on it, and see whether the values > are also off. I'll work on fixing the bug. Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
