Re: /etc/network/interfaces & point-to-point ethernet & broadcast address
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:30:26PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to configure/create an Ethernet device using
> > /etc/network/interfaces, but not set the broadcast address?
>
> Set it to 0.0.0.0.
Damm! Why didn't I think of that ;-).
Thanks, that seems to do just what I want it to do.
The kernel seems to treat 0.0.0.0 as a magic value to mean "No broadcast
address".
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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