Your message dated Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:42:14 -0300 with message-id <1237178534.25707.13.ca...@abraxas> and subject line Bug has been solved a long time ago has caused the Debian Bug report #87784, regarding ifup uses incorrect netmask to calculate broadcast address to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: ifupdown Version: 0.6.4-3 in /etc/network/interfaces, I have: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 128.42.162.116 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 128.42.162.254 after booting, "ifconfig eth0" contains: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:D1:96:A7 inet addr:128.42.162.116 Bcast:128.42.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 The broadcast address was incorrectly calculated from the _class's_ netmask, not the local ethernet segment's netmask, which is what it correctly specifies as the netmask for the interface.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: net-tools Version: 1.60-17 Hi, only eight years after this was submitted :-), I'm closing this bug because it's not reproducible even on etch systems, I can reproduce it on sarge, though. 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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