[BusyBox 0000980]: patch to avoid "broadcast +" syntax

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Saturday 25 November 2006 18:55, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:

[politics deleted]

>   Finally I think not all NIC are the same: a NIC could be smart enough 
> to set broadcast by itself

NIC knows absolutely zero about _broadcast_ _IP_ addresses_. It is not NIC's
business to know that. Wast majority of NICs know nothing about IP
protocol _at_ all_. They just send and receive Ethernet packets
without messing with their internals.

High-performance NICs with TCP offload have some limited knowledge about
TCP packet structure, but they don't need, and do not know anything
about IP subnets, netmasks and all that stuff. The kernel manages that.

> as a useful feature in the today's desktop or  
> server systems: why does NIC-BIOS should pollute other subnets risking 
> the dummy user thinks the NIC is not performing so good? If a NIC-BIOS 
> is able to boot an entire system why it should not be able to set the 
> broadcast itself?
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vda