Re: [Ipsec-tools-devel] splitnet config modification [patch]

[Matthew G. <mg...@sh...>]

Peter Eisch wrote:
> On 7/26/06 12:50 AM, "Matthew Grooms" <mg...@sh...> wrote:
> 
> ...
>> +/*
>> + * Unity adress/mask lists
>> + * XXX : the padding is probably there for something !
>> + */
>> +        
>> +struct unity_network {
>> +    struct in_addr addr4;
>> +    struct in_addr mask4;
>> +    char padding[6];
>> +} __attribute__((__packed__));
>> +        
> 
> I'll bite:  What's the padding for?
> 

Not sure. It was in the original splitnet implementation. All I know is 
that the padding is always present and that I have never seen it with 
non-null data.

-Matthew