Subnets

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> With a Slackware 7 kernel 2.2.14 system, I notice that the client (or
> bird) gets the wrong broadcast address.
> 
> bird> sh inter
> lo up (index=1)
>         MultiAccess AdminUp LinkUp Loopback Ignored MTU=3924
>         127.0.0.1/8 (Primary, broadcast 127.255.255.255, scope host)
> eth0 up (index=10)
>         MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500
>         208.135.194.18/30 (Primary, broadcast 208.135.194.255, opposite 208.135.194.19, scope univ)
> eth1 up (index=11)
>         MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500
>         208.135.194.21/30 (Primary, broadcast 208.135.194.255, opposite 208.135.194.20, scope univ)
> eth2 up (index=12)
>         MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500
>         208.135.194.28/29 (Primary, broadcast 208.135.194.255, scope univ)
> eth3 DOWN (index=13)
>         MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkDown MTU=1500

Are you sure you've set the broadcast address correctly when
configuring the interface? What do `ifconfig' and `ip addr' print?

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj at ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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