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From: Bin Zhou
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 05:33

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hello there,

Im using Debian GUN/Linux 2.2--with 2.2.16 kernel. It seems to me that, the
/sbin/ifconfig command(version 1.39) performs strange. If I set all IP,MASK
and
broadcast values, everything go OK, but if I only set IP and MASK, not set
the
broadcast, the default broadcast is determinded by the class of the IP,
not the correct value(IP | ^MASK). ex. the broadcast of
172.31.0.1/255.255.255.0
is set to 172.31.255.255, not the 172.31.0.255. Is this the specification or
a bug?

thank you

zhoubin@no.spam.circle.to.no.spam

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