Bug#295482: netcfg: broadcast address good

[the owner <editor@postscript.port5.com>]

Greetings-

The broadcast address was fine in the new 18 Feb 05 monolithic installer from debian-amd64.
Unfortunately, my DSL modem still crashed and so must be unrelated to the broadcast address.
The problem might not be due to netcfg. I don't know.

I remember the DSL modem crashed in a similar way using the i386 D-I two months ago on a Celeron.
The problem only occurs using D-I. I think there is a problem with D-I maybe not netcfg. I saved
the /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog when the modem crashed if you are interested except
they don't contain anything related to the crash.

* Still continue to close this bug unless you think netcfg is the problem.

editor@postscript.port5.com



+++++++++ Installation Report:

Hello Everybody-

I am sending email from a fresh sid install from pure64 using the 18 Feb 2005 sid-amd64-monolithic.iso installer.

This install was my first to complete using any monolithic image.

The base installation was halted twice when my DSL modem crashed and needed to be reset. Fortunately, I went back 
to the menu and the installer now resumed the install instead of starting over. The modem crashed at 14% and 17% 
and then the installer went to completion. The netcfg broadcast address was correct during the entire installation.
There are never any crashes except when using D-I. The broadcast address must be unrelated to the crashes.



Here is the ifconfig after the first crash of the DSL modem.


eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:2F:E0:3A:27  
          inet addr:192.168.2.64  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:17727 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:26370714 (25.1 MiB)  TX bytes:798070 (779.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:17 Memory:fba00000-0 

Here is the current ifconfig after finishing installation and login:


eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:2F:E0:3A:27  
          inet addr:192.168.2.64  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:44415 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:28913 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:66897852 (63.7 MiB)  TX bytes:2077083 (1.9 MiB)
          Interrupt:17 Memory:fba00000-0 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)




The CDROM ejected and I rebooted using my custom kernel and the network is fine.

This installation was made to my AMD64 ASUS A8V using VIA ide and sata controller.
The sk98lin ethernet was installed automatically and no manual tweaks made. Again, 
this is my first installation to complete using the monolithic installer.


editor@postscript.port5.com

:-)