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Calculate the broadcast address #248

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@tcely tcely commented Jul 24, 2017

This is like "ip addr add 127.0.0.1/8 broadcast +" and prevents interfaces without broadcast addresses.

Configuring the IP and netmask, but not the broadcast address leaves many applications in a broken state on Linux interfaces.

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tcely commented Jul 24, 2017

Since the Travis CI build doesn't show the problem this might save someone else a bit of time.

docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/code:Z codeclimate/codeclimate-gofmt gofmt -d ./*.go

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Sorry I missed this. The code looks correct. Would you mind squashing into a single commit?

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ping @tcely :)

This is like "ip addr add 127.0.0.1/8 broadcast +" and prevents interfaces without broadcast addresses.

Configuring the IP and netmask, but not the broadcast address leaves many applications in a broken state on Linux interfaces.
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tcely commented Aug 8, 2017

Squashed these commits as requested.

@vishvananda vishvananda merged commit f5a6f69 into vishvananda:master Aug 8, 2017
@tcely tcely deleted the patch-1 branch August 8, 2017 16:07
brandt added a commit to brandt/netlink that referenced this pull request Oct 30, 2019
Since [vishvananda#248](vishvananda#248), adding an address automatically sets the broadcast if the broadcast address was not specified. This is undesirable when adding an IP with a prefixlen of /31 or /32. (Additional details in the issues linked below.)

This changes the behavior so that the broadcast is only automatically set if the prefixlen is /30 or larger.

Issue reported in:

- vishvananda#329
- vishvananda#471

See also:

- [RFC 3021](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3021)

Alternatives to this PR:

A. vishvananda#472 - Adds `AddrAddWithoutCalculatedBroadcast`.
B. jjastrze-ovh@9a85a61 - Breaking change to make auto-setting the broadcast address an opt-in feature.
C. <no existing PR> - Suppress sending of the broadcast to netlink when `addr` has a broadcast set to `0.0.0.0`.
brandt added a commit to brandt/netlink that referenced this pull request Oct 30, 2019
Since [vishvananda#248](vishvananda#248), adding an address automatically sets the broadcast if the broadcast address was not specified. This is undesirable when adding an IP with a prefixlen of /31 or /32. (Additional details in the issues linked below.)

This changes the behavior so that the broadcast is only automatically set if the prefixlen is /30 or larger.

Issue reported in:

- vishvananda#329
- vishvananda#471

See also:

- [RFC 3021](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3021)

Alternatives to this PR:

A. vishvananda#472 - Adds `AddrAddWithoutCalculatedBroadcast`.
B. jjastrze-ovh@9a85a61 - Breaking change to make auto-setting the broadcast address an opt-in feature.
C. already works - Suppress setting the broadcast when addr's broadcast address is set to `0.0.0.0`. (This works today, but I'm not sure the behavior can be relied upon as a public API.)
vishvananda pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2019
Since [#248](#248), adding an address automatically sets the broadcast if the broadcast address was not specified. This is undesirable when adding an IP with a prefixlen of /31 or /32. (Additional details in the issues linked below.)

This changes the behavior so that the broadcast is only automatically set if the prefixlen is /30 or larger.

Issue reported in:

- #329
- #471

See also:

- [RFC 3021](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3021)

Alternatives to this PR:

A. #472 - Adds `AddrAddWithoutCalculatedBroadcast`.
B. jjastrze-ovh@9a85a61 - Breaking change to make auto-setting the broadcast address an opt-in feature.
C. already works - Suppress setting the broadcast when addr's broadcast address is set to `0.0.0.0`. (This works today, but I'm not sure the behavior can be relied upon as a public API.)
gkodali-zededa pushed a commit to gkodali-zededa/netlink that referenced this pull request May 21, 2021
Since [vishvananda#248](vishvananda#248), adding an address automatically sets the broadcast if the broadcast address was not specified. This is undesirable when adding an IP with a prefixlen of /31 or /32. (Additional details in the issues linked below.)

This changes the behavior so that the broadcast is only automatically set if the prefixlen is /30 or larger.

Issue reported in:

- vishvananda#329
- vishvananda#471

See also:

- [RFC 3021](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3021)

Alternatives to this PR:

A. vishvananda#472 - Adds `AddrAddWithoutCalculatedBroadcast`.
B. jjastrze-ovh@9a85a61 - Breaking change to make auto-setting the broadcast address an opt-in feature.
C. already works - Suppress setting the broadcast when addr's broadcast address is set to `0.0.0.0`. (This works today, but I'm not sure the behavior can be relied upon as a public API.)
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