From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Message-Id: <200107251940.XAA12699@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: ifconfig and SIOCSIFADDR
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:40:42 +0400 (MSK DST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, net-tools@lina.inka.de, philb@gnu.org
In-Reply-To: <200107251923.TAA21053@vlet.cwi.nl> from "Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl" at Jul 25, 1 07:23:55 pm
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Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Hello!

> Yes. It didn't in 2.0.

Soooory, it did. This behavior is copied from there. :-)


> Yes. I liked such logic thirty years ago. That is Unix.

:-) Seems, thirty years ago there were not only Internet but Unix too.

BTW I did not hear about any kind of Unix, which forgets
to set a valid mask on newly selected address.

ifconfig eth0 193.233.7.65 works nicely everywhere.
Only on 4.2BSD it creates bad "zero" broadcast.

Alexey

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