1. 05 Jul, 2004 4 commits
    • Jaap Keuter's avatar
      [IPV4]: Calculate default broadcast even when using SIOCSIGNETMASK. · f8f1f469
      Jaap Keuter authored
      While getting hands-on with netkit (www.netkit.org), a networking
      simulation environment based on UML, it struck me that ifconfig wasn't
      capable of calculating the proper broadcast address for a subnetted
      interface. Some browsing through newsgroups and on the Debian package
      site (nettools), showed that this leads to misconfigured interfaces and
      a couple of bugreports on ifconfig.
      
      Digging a bit deeper revealed that it actually is an issue with
      SIOIFNETMASK. Once you bring up an interface with SIOIFADDR, a classfull
      netmask and broadcast address is set (if applicable for the type of
      interface), in order to get a properly configured interface. But if you
      subnet the network using SIOIFNETMASK no proper broadcast address is
      set. So you always have to calculate it yourself, obviously leading to
      configuration errors.
      
      This patch takes care of this. First of all it doesn't change
      existing functionality, eg. a command like 'ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
      netmask 255.255.255.240 broadcast 192.168.1.0' still works. But if you
      omit the broadcast address, a proper 'all ones' broadcast address for the
      subnet is set. 'ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.240' gives
      you 'eth0 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.15 Mask:255.255.255.240'
      and this should solve some real life problems.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xs4all.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
      f8f1f469
    • David S. Miller's avatar
    • Jamal Hadi Salim's avatar
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://drm.bkbits.net/drm-2.6 · 07f0a148
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      07f0a148
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