Re: Broadcast

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 14:30:31 EST


On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:

> I'm trying to turn of the broadcast flag for a network card. But
> I can't, why??

Because ethernet is a broadcast medium (in contrast
to P-t-P media)

> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:6E:76:63
> inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Rik

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