Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:43:25 +0100 (MET) From: guido@IAEhv.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: SIOCGIFBRDADDR Message-ID: <199603140843.JAA26397@iaehv.IAEhv.nl>
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I was looking at the SIOCGIFBRDADDR interface and discovered that always the broadcast address belonging to the *first* inet address of the specified interface is returned. I believe this is wrong. You should get the broadcast address belonging to the address specified in the passed ifreq structure. I was experimenting with aliases on an interface for which the alias lies in a completely different network the already present address. There should be no reason for this to fail. Except that no program will be able to obtrain the correct broadcast address. -Guido
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