Re: ifconfig, CIDR and default broadcast address

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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
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