interface: fix IPv6 parsing of interfaces with large indexes (> 255)
patch from Dave Johnson <djohnson@sw.starentnetworks.com> via Debian #433543 When running 'ifconfig' it will not show any IPv6 addresses for interfaces that have an ifindex > 255. Because the kernel will increment the ifindex every time an interface is added or removed, it is not necessary to have 256 interfaces at once, just creating 256 interfaces since system boot and they will no longer show IPv6 addresses. This is due to an improper fscanf() maximum range argument. Patch to fix the problem is below. Example: st34:~# ip addr list dev eth1.110 268: eth1.110@eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue link/ether 00:e0:81:2a:0d:2d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fd4d:5643:2886:6e::ea:0/64 scope global valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::2e0:81ff:fe2a:d2d/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever st34:~# ifconfig eth1.110 eth1.110 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:2A:0D:2D UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:676 (676.0 b) st34:~# grep eth1.110 /proc/net/if_inet6 fd4d56432886006e0000000000ea0000 10c 40 00 80 eth1.110 fe8000000000000002e081fffe2a0d2d 10c 40 20 80 eth1.110 st34:~#
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