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Is it makes sense to manually set broadcast address for interfaces?
I'm converting my scripts from old net-tools:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
to iproute2:
ip link set eth0 up
ip addr add 192.168.2.1/24 dev eth0
and I notice new commands ...
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How to configure samba to workaround UDP broadcast problems?
I have a problem that NetBIOS name of my Ubuntu laptop connected through WiFi cannot be resolved from other machines. Using a packet sniffer and nmblookup I figured out that the wlan interface doesn't ...
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What is responsible of setting up the default broadcast address?
The broadcast address is apparently misconfigured on some (old) Linux embedded device that I setup (but that I don't own anymore) because it doesn't match the expected value given the IP address and ...
