On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Kieran Mansley<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 18:05 +0530, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have a question on the function ip_addr_isbroadcast(): >> >> Why do we check for destination address even before we've determined >> if the network interface supports broadcast or not? Shouldn't that be >> the first check? > > I don't know. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised the second check is > there (and that the function takes a netif as argument at all). It > would make more sense to be that the function that tests if the address > is broadcast just tests the address, not the interface properties as > well.
Isn't the netif being used to determine if the passed address fits in as a subnet broadcast address? > > Kieran > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lwip-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lwip-users > _______________________________________________ lwip-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lwip-users
