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

Roberto A. Foglietta roberto.foglietta at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 10:15:16 PST 2006


2006/11/26, Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>:
> 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

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> about IP subnets, netmasks and all that stuff. The kernel manages that.
>

 thank you for your explanation.

 Cheers,
-- 
/roberto


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