On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:03:36PM -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
On 06/10/2011 04:57 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 10.06.2011 02:51, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
Without this broadcast address is not set.
broadcast= parameter can be empty. In this case the broadcast address is derived by setting all of the interface host bits to one (+). ACK, this looks sane.
(However, I just found the + flag by accident in netcfg - I couldn't find documentation for it).
I see it at least here: http://www.policyrouting.org/iproute2.doc.html#ss9.2.1
PS: man pages of iproute2 are out-of-sync respect to iproute2 commands, like the internal help of commands.
-- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1
It's in the man page for 'ip': broadcast ADDRESS the broadcast address on the interface. It is possible to use the special symbols '+' and '-' instead of the broadcast address. In this case, the broadcast address is derived by setting/resetting the host bits of the interface pre‐ fix. d