Your message dated Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:45:48 -0300
with message-id <1237178748.25707.16.ca...@abraxas>
and subject line Closing old bug
has caused the Debian Bug report #122792,
regarding net-tools: ifconfig sets broadcast address based on CLASS broadcast,
not per netmask
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Package: net-tools
Version: 1.60-4
Severity: normal
example: ifconfig eth0:1 10.20.30.42 netmask 255.255.255.252
broadcast should be 10.20.30.43, but it's set to 10.255.255.255
if you do if for a Class C address space, it'll assign x.y.z.255, even if
netmask is set to smaller than a /24 network.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux clouded 2.4.12 #1 Mon Oct 22 00:59:57 PDT 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages net-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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Package: net-tools
Version: 1.60-17
Following #87784, I'm closing this bug because it's not reproducible
even on etch systems, I can reproduce it on sarge, though.
On the comments, Phillip says this is a kernel issue; I really don't
know if the kernel was fixed or net-tools was. But since the last two
stable releases, this bug doesn't show anymore, so...
On Sarge:
# ifconfig dummy0 128.42.162.116 netmask 255.255.255.0
# ifconfig dummy0 | head -n2
dummy0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C2:C5:EF:F4:92:1A
inet addr:128.42.162.116 Bcast:128.42.255.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
# dpkg -s net-tools | grep ^Version:
Version: 1.60-10
On Etch and newer systems:
# ifconfig dummy0 128.42.162.116 netmask 255.255.255.0
# ifconfig dummy0 | head -n2
dummy0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 3A:B1:38:29:F1:FE
inet addr:128.42.162.116 Bcast:128.42.162.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
# dpkg -s net-tools | grep ^Version:
Version: 1.60-17
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