Hello,
on usage of a malformed MAC address the error message was not descriptive.
Best regards,
Mart
>From e2b3628a66db473d230e83a6eb98389849e20de1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mart Frauenlob <mart.frauenlob@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 14:24:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] libxtables: Print meaningful error message for an invalid MAC address string
If an invalid MAC address is used on the commmand line, the error message
`ether' was not really describing the problem.
Signed-off-by: Mart Frauenlob <mart.frauenlob@xxxxxxxxx>
---
libxtables/xtoptions.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libxtables/xtoptions.c b/libxtables/xtoptions.c
index 78e9abd..9b4c5aa 100644
--- a/libxtables/xtoptions.c
+++ b/libxtables/xtoptions.c
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ static void xtopt_parse_ethermac(struct xt_option_call *cb)
sizeof(cb->val.ethermac));
return;
out:
- xt_params->exit_err(PARAMETER_PROBLEM, "ether");
+ xt_params->exit_err(PARAMETER_PROBLEM, "Invalid MAC address specified.");
}
static void (*const xtopt_subparse[])(struct xt_option_call *) = {
--
1.7.2.5
