XPost: comp.os.linux.networking   
   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   In comp.protocols.tcp-ip Rob Warnock  wrote:   
   (snip)   
      
   > Beware that in some (most?) versions of Linux "ifconfig" will set the   
   > IP broadcast address *incorrectly* unless you specify it explicitly   
   > [thus causing various protocols that use IP broadcast for initial   
   > discovery to fail mysteriously!].   
      
   I don't know what you mean by incorrect, but for all the years   
   I used SunOS it always set the broadcast address by default   
   to the zero host address.  You just got used to overriding that.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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