Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 03:47:56 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ia_netbroadcast Message-ID: <20040518034756.A9648@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20040518100503.GG845@darkness.comp.waw.pl>; from pjd@freebsd.org on Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:05:03PM %2B0200 References: <20040518092439.GF845@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040518024346.A5068@xorpc.icir.org> <20040518100503.GG845@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:05:03PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: ... > +> > Do we still need ia_netboradcast field? It is calculated depending on > +> > old-fashion classes (A, B, C). Is it used still? > +> > I wonder if ia_broadaddr isn't sufficient today. > +> > +> not just that, it seems that ia_netboradcast contains bogus info. > > So? nuke it! Also if, as Andre said, it might be used by windows apps, one could certainly compute it on the fly from the IP address. cheers luigi
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