Greg Erskine wrote: > > I wonder why the "ifconfig" command has a broadcast address option? I > dunno! >
Because it always did, this is old, old code, and you can set it manually if you wish. Arguably you don't need it because it should normally be inferred from the netmask and the IP, but there it is. There's an option.. and you can change it if you are a weirdo. Like all good things, there's a choice.. so the DHCP protocol has to support explicitly setting this field too. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106755 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
