On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:19:17PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:22:36PM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Ok that worked.. not as I expected. I don't understand the EINVAL and > > "ip addr" shows no broadcast address for eth0 when a classless address is > > added as the primary (and only) address like in the above example. That's > > why I tried to set it manually in the second "ip" command. > > Because you might want not > > ip addr add 172.18.12.99/21 dev dummy0 > ip addr add broadcast 172.18.15.255 dev dummy0 > > but > > ip addr add 172.18.12.99/21 broadcast 172.18.15.255 dev dummy0 > > Magic of local/global adresses is hidden here.
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