ia_netbroadcast

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:55:21PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
+> > Ok, this patch:
+> > 
+> >         http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/no_old_style_nets.patch
+> > 
+> > removes ia_netbroadcast, ia_net, ia_netmask field from structure
+> > in_ifaddr and removes sysctl net.inet.ip.subnets_are_local as suggested
+> > in commit log of revision 1.24 of file netinet/in.c:
+> > 
+> > Set subnetsarelocal to false.  In a classless world, the other case
+> > is almost never useful.  (This is only a quick hack; someone should
+> > go back and delete the entire subnetsarelocal==1 code path.)
+> > 
+> > Tests and comments are welcome.
+> 
+> I have checked that at least Win2k doesn't use the classful broadcast
+> address anymore.  I don't know about older versions of Windows.
+> 
+> However I'm not yet sure we (better I) understand all implications of
+> removing the things you do in your patch.  Please hold off for a moment
+> until I've finished thinking and looking through the implications.

Don't worry. I'm not going to commit it before I hear clear "Go ahead!".

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://garage.freebsd.pl
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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