Fedora 20 broadcast address

Louis Lagendijk louis at fazant.net
Mon Sep 30 13:05:14 UTC 2013


	
Running F20 installed from Alpha RC2 or RC3. 
Network manager does not seem to set the broadcast address on my
ethernet interface:

[root at travel louis]# ifconfig 
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 6751  bytes 1121567 (1.0 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 6751  bytes 1121567 (1.0 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

p5p1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.159.186  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 0.0.0.0
        inet6 2001:981:688d:f2:1e6f:65ff:fed5:7742  prefixlen 128
scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 fe80::1e6f:65ff:fed5:7742  prefixlen 64  scopeid
0x20<link>
        ether 1c:6f:65:d5:77:42  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 568712  bytes 540500284 (515.4 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 359977  bytes 282238000 (269.1 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
 
but it is provided by my DHCP server:
cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-bbf63b86-70f0-4a30-8ffa-b7849ff5f86b-p5p1.lease 
lease {
  interface "p5p1";
  fixed-address 192.168.159.186;
  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
  option dhcp-lease-time 604800;
  option routers 192.168.159.1;
  option dhcp-message-type 5;
  option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.159.1;
  option domain-name-servers 192.168.159.1;
  option broadcast-address 192.168.159.255;
  option domain-name "pheasant";
  renew 4 2013/10/03 08:35:34;
  rebind 0 2013/10/06 14:45:25;
  expire 1 2013/10/07 11:45:25;
}
lease {
  interface "p5p1";
  fixed-address 192.168.159.186;
  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
  option routers 192.168.159.1;
  option dhcp-lease-time 604800;
  option dhcp-message-type 5;
  option domain-name-servers 192.168.159.1;
  option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.159.1;
  option broadcast-address 192.168.159.255;
  option domain-name "pheasant";
  renew 4 2013/10/03 14:14:55;
  rebind 0 2013/10/06 14:54:41;
  expire 1 2013/10/07 11:54:41;
}

the broadcast address is not set when I configure the interface with a
static address either. Is this change intentionalor should I file a BZ?

Louis





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