[arch-projects] [RFC2] [PATCH] [initscripts] network: Add missing broadcast address

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Fri Jun 10 12:03:36 EDT 2011


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



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