On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:58:41PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Correct. We can still optionally configure it, but the default should be what I do in my patch. We could combine Eric's and my patch.
By Eric, do you mean Gerardo? Anyone want to resubmit a combination?
Right now, netcfg doesn't have a way to configure the broadcast either, and just computes it automatically.
Do you have a use case where the broadcast is not the last address in the subnet? I haven't seen this.
I'll let Dave asses whether or not this (setting a non-standard broadcast) is something we actually want to support
-t
I think it's within the realm of things we could support. I wasn't aware of any situation where the broadcast couldn't be calculated automatically, so I skipped over it. Since this isn't the case, I think it's important that we support it. It's a simple enough change. dave