[Glyph]
So it sounds like doing what I suggested earlier (default to [-1], allow
for customization) is actually required by the RFC :-). Although it
does sound like the RFC only requires that you be able to customize to
[0] rather than [-1], rather than any address. In practical terms
though I believe it is possible to do as Tino suggests and configure any
crazy address you want to be the broadcast address (or addresses, even)
for a network.
If you're doing this, are you really going to be specifying the
broadcast address as something like network.use_broadcast_index(-2) (or
even 0) and then using network.broadcast somewhere else? I just don't
see that happening.
[Martin]
I think setting the broadcast address to something else just does
not need to be supported.
I agree.
[Glyph]
It is unusual, but frankly, needing to actually do operations on
broadcast addresses at all is also a pretty unusual task. Broadcast
itself is a somewhat obscure corner of networking. I suspect that in
many deployments that need to write significant code to deal with
broadcast addresses, rather than the usual default stuff, funky
configurations will actually be quite common.
I use .broadcast from IPy, and I'm not doing anything funky. All of my
broadcast addresses are network[-1].
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