Treat the lowest-numbered address in each IPv4 network
segment as unicast, not broadcast.
Signed-off-by: Seth David Schoen <sch...@loyalty.org>
Suggested-by: John Gilmore <g...@toad.com>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
index 84bb707bd88d..bfb345c88271 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
@@ -1122,10 +1122,8 @@ void fib_add_ifaddr(struct in_ifaddr *ifa)
prefix, ifa->ifa_prefixlen, prim,
ifa->ifa_rt_priority);
- /* Add network specific broadcasts, when it takes a sense */
+ /* Add the network broadcast address, when it makes sense */
if (ifa->ifa_prefixlen < 31) {
- fib_magic(RTM_NEWROUTE, RTN_BROADCAST, prefix, 32,
- prim, 0);
fib_magic(RTM_NEWROUTE, RTN_BROADCAST, prefix | ~mask,
32, prim, 0);
}
--
2.25.1
