In article <20001220001222.A18174@frii.com> you wrote: > I believe the problem is *not* with the kernel, which should > provide mechanism, not policy. Rather, ifconfig needs to > pass more appropriate values in the struct ifreq when issuing > the SIOCSIFBRDADDR ioctl. It does not call SIOCSIFBRDADDR if you do not set broadcast by hand. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org