Am 09.06.2011 17:02, schrieb Seblu: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 09.06.2011 06:04, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi: >>> Without this broadcast address is not set. >> >> The broadcast address is uniquely defined by the network(or IP) and >> netmask. The user should not need to explicitly specify this. > > It's true in most cases. But it's strictly false. Broadcast address is > not something which can be calculated automaticaly in complex setup. > But i agree, let it empty should do the default expected behaviour.
Correct. We can still optionally configure it, but the default should be what I do in my patch. We could combine Eric's and my patch. Right now, netcfg doesn't have a way to configure the broadcast either, and just computes it automatically. Do you have a use case where the broadcast is not the last address in the subnet? I haven't seen this.
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