Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:01:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Stevens <freebsd@pursued-with.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent 4.9 networking problems Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.58.0406241500070.4839@onorysvfu.chefhrq-jvgu.arg> In-Reply-To: <20040624214849.GA79822@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <00ba01c45a2d$66a34220$3200000a@lucy> <Pine.OSX.4.58.0406241429090.4839@onorysvfu.chefhrq-jvgu.arg> <20040624214849.GA79822@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:31:58PM -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > Err -- no. The broadcast address is a function of the netmask. > Specifically, looking at IPv4 addresses/masks as 32bit integers, the > broadcast address has all ones where ever the netmask has zeros. The > OP actually has it right. Especially as that is clearly the slightly > edited output from ifconfig(8), and ifconfig automatically calculates > the broadcast address from the inet address and netmask. Ok, tested, my bad. Sorry for any confusion. KeS
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