[Lxc-users] Container broadcast address

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 02/07/2011 01:32 AM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Daniel Lezcano<daniel.lezcano at free.fr>  writes:
>
>> On 02/04/2011 03:43 PM, Andre Nathan wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I have the following container network configuration:
>>>
>>> lxc.network.type = veth
>>> lxc.network.link = br0
>>> lxc.network.flags = up
>>> lxc.network.ipv4 = 192.168.0.2/24
>>> lxc.network.name = eth0
>>>
>>> When the container starts up, this is how its eth0 interface is
>>> configured:
>>>
>>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 2e:bd:69:e3:ed:d3
>>>             inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>             inet6 addr: fe80::2cbd:69ff:fee3:edd3/64 Scope:Link
>>>             UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>>             RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>             TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>>             collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>>             RX bytes:1124 (1.1 KB)  TX bytes:866 (866.0 B)
>>>
>>> The broadcast address should be 192.168.0.255. Is there a way I can set
>>> this?
>> lxc.network.ipv4 = 192.168.0.2/24 192.168.0.255
> Why doesn't lxc default to
>
>      ip address add 192.168.0.2/24 brd + dev<...>
>
> ...i.e. calculate the broadcast address from the CIDR address ("brd +")?

I commited the fix a couple of hours ago :)

http://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxc/lxc;a=commitdiff;h=d8948a52c3055d6c06bea9551a622ebcc8a32e4b;hp=7b57e8b681c487030995378793febd5b35396c5f