I looked at it, and it's 1 line to make the kernel properly deduce the
broadcast address from the netmask, it doens't make sense to not do this.
Here's the diff, I understand that there are times that the broadcast is
needed to not match the netmask, but aren't these not-normal?
*** devinet.c Fri May 12 11:47:24 2000
--- devinet.c.new Fri May 12 11:46:45 2000
***************
*** 608,613 ****
--- 608,614 ----
inet_del_ifa(in_dev, ifap, 0);
ifa->ifa_mask = sin->sin_addr.s_addr;
ifa->ifa_prefixlen =
inet_mask_len(ifa->ifa_mask);
+ ifa->ifa_broadcast = (~(ifa->ifa_mask) | ifa->ifa_address);
inet_set_ifa(dev, ifa);
}
break;
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