ia_netbroadcast
Luigi Rizzo
rizzo at icir.org
Tue May 18 03:47:57 PDT 2004
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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