Hi, On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 at 21:45 +0100, Dirk Nehring wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:02:11AM +0100, Markus Wigge wrote: > > Hi, > > > > >> Modified: > > >> branches/freewrt_1_0/package/base-files-arch/Makefile > > >> > > >> branches/freewrt_1_0/target/linux/brcm-2.4/files/etc/network/interfaces > > >> Log: > > >> add broadcast to interfaces template, fix switch config for non-switch > > >> devices > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > > Personal interest: why is this necessary? > > > > This option is unnecessary. AFAIK you needed to explicitly give the > > broadcast address for 2.0 kernel series or before? > > So this option is deprecated and only available for historical reasons I > > think.
It is not deprecated. If you have a more or less non-standard netmask for your network, you need to give the broadcast address, otherwise you get strange network problems. At least this is definitively needed in Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, because ifupdown does not compute the broadcast very well. (See bugs.debian.org for references) It has nothing todo with the kernel version. This happens to me on 2.6.x kernels. A correct broadcast address is always needed. The line does not harm, feel free to remove it on your router ;) bye Waldemar _______________________________________________ freewrt-developers mailing list [email protected] https://www.freewrt.org/lists/listinfo/freewrt-developers
