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Allow bridge-utils to run when no TCP/IP is available

PATCH New Alon Bar-Lev 1 participant 1 message Oct 29, 2007 Ethernet bridge

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PATCH 1/1 Allow bridge-utils to run when no TCP/IP is available

This simple patch create AF_LOCAL socket instead of AF_INET so if TCP/IP is not linked into kernel it still works.

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libbridge/libbridge_init.c +1 -1
diff -urNp bridge-utils-1.2.org/libbridge/libbridge_init.c bridge-utils-1.2/libbridge/libbridge_init.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ int br_socket_fd = -1;
 
 int br_init(void)
 {
-	if ((br_socket_fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
+	if ((br_socket_fd = socket(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
 		return errno;
 	return 0;
 }