dhcp delivered subnet broadcast address: 255.255.255.255

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>]

Hi list,

I've seen and heard about this on more than one occasion.
Now I wonder what's hiding behind it. What could be the point with a
dhcp-server throwing out a 255.255.255.255 subnet broadcast address
together with a ip-address/subnet mask from which the dammed thing can be
easily deducted and which is very different. Does this example:

  Address:   1.2.3.4
  Netmask:   255.255.240.0
  Broadcast: 255.255.255.255 (instead of 1.2.15.255)

make sense to anyone?


Cheers,
Cristian