Package: ifupdown Version: 0.6.7 Severity: normal
At work we have a set of public addresses of the form x.x.96.0/27 (netmask 255.255.255.224). All interfaces have static addresses. If I leave "broadcast x.x.125.127" out of the configuration, the broadcast address gets set to "x.x.125.255", which is wrong. Seems to me like the /etc/network/interfaces mechanism is ignoring my netmask and calculating the broadcast address as if this were a class C network, which it isn't. We have a couple of SUSE boxes also, and they calculate the broadcast address correctly, BTW. Having to set the broadcast address explictly seems redundant and unnecessary given that all the necessary information for it being calculated automatically is already there. It isn't such a big deal, but it is a stain in an otherwise elegant network setup mechanism. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages ifupdown depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii net-tools 1.60-10 The NET-3 networking toolkit -- debconf information: ifupdown/convert-interfaces: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
