Basic networking - can't ping MacOS from Linux

[Andreas Schwab]

Jim Easterbrook <jim.easterbrook@rd.bbc.co.uk> writes:

> One curiosity: with 0.9.68 the sheep driver generates a system message
> "IP-filter: 192.168.52.11", which is the IP address I have set in
> MacOS. With 0.9.70 the message is "IP-filter: -64.-88.52.11". This
> suggests to me that the compilation of 0.9.70 is assuming plain chars are
> signed, and 0.9.68 is assuming they're unsigned. Is this relevant?

Don't use -fsigned-char when compiling MOL.  There are more places where
the sources assume the default of -funsigned-char (but they should be
fixed nevertheless).

Andreas.

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