On Wed, 06.11.13 14:14, Mantas Mikulėnas (graw...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Lennart Poettering > <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > > I have my suspicions that that won't work out since there already are > > quite a few properties for addresses, no? There's scope, flags, > > label. For Point-To-Point stuff the address needs to be paired with a > > local one, and in other cases with a broadcast address. We should at > > least try to normalize this into different sections, no? > > Hmm, when is explicitly setting the broadcast address ever necessary?
There are some cases like that in hosting setups where people play games with this so that they can use tiny subnets while packing hosts as close as they can wihouting losing one (or two) adresses in each subnet for broadcast (and as network address)... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
