Re: Libnet bgp patches

Hi Pete,

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:26:15PM +0100, Pete Young wrote:
> Dear Fred,
>
> I'm also interested in using libnet to create and inject BGP traffic,
> so you can imagine that I was highly delighted to find your patches
> on the Security Focus libnet mailing list.

:)

>
> I ran the patches against RC005, and I found a couple of things which
> didn't quite work out for me.
>
> The routine libnet_pblock_free()
> appears to have been replaced somewhere along the line by
> libnet_pblock_delete() . I replaced all instances of
>
> libnet_pblock_free(p);
>
> with
>
> libnet_pblock_delete(l,p);
>
> in libnet_build_bgp.c and he compiler seems happy with this.
>

I introduced libnet_delete() to handle special cases with TCP and IP packets. It is everywhere now because it is more consistent with the remaining of the prorgram.

> Also, the html version of your patch in the Security Focus
> archive appears to have mangled the definition of the sample source
> file bgp4_update.c . The extract from the patch looks like:
>
> Should this be a macro definition for set_ptr_and_size?

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Yep, definitely !

Here is a new patch agains RC005.

Enjoy,

        fred