Hi meem,
I think all these are controlled by OS not driver.
Tom
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From: "James Carlson" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:39 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Tom Chen" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [networking-discuss] nic driver netmask&broadcast information
changed after hotplugging
Peter Memishian wrote:
> After hotplugging (hot swapping) or Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) test,
> our Network driver's netmask and broadcast address sometime become
> different.
>
> For example, the network driver instance was set as netmask ffffff00
> and broadcast 77.77.77.255, but after hotplugging, netmask becomes
> ff000000 and broadcast 77.255.255.255.
>
> I am wondering who controls netmask and broadcast address for each
> network adapter port?
The relevant /etc/hostname.<if> file.
Doesn't DR also stash away information using ifconfig's "configinfo"?
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James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]>
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