Re: [PATCH] broadcast address on subnet

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:02:16 +0200 (CEST)
Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Digging a bit deeper revealed that it actually is an issue with
> SIOIFNETMASK. Once you bring up an interface with SIOIFADDR, a classfull
> netmask and broadcast address is set (if applicable for the type of
> interface), in order to get a properly configured interface. But if you
> subnet the network using SIOIFNETMASK no proper broadcast address is
> set. So you always have to calculate it yourself, obviously leading to
> configuration errors.

Indeed that's odd behavior.  I like this patch and will apply it
to my trees.

Thanks.