From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank van Maarseveen Subject: Re: 2.6.19/2.6.20 BUG in inet_rtm_newaddr()/__inet_insert_ifa() Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:55:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20070310135539.GB30620@janus> References: <20070309103333.GA17232@janus> <20070309123016.GA4736@2ka.mipt.ru> <20070309182236.GA21587@janus> <20070310131917.GA25794@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Evgeniy Polyakov Return-path: Received: from frankvm.xs4all.nl ([80.126.170.174]:41598 "EHLO janus.localdomain" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933282AbXCJNzl (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:55:41 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070310131917.GA25794@2ka.mipt.ru> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 (frankvm@frankvm.com) 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. thanks! -- Frank