[systemd-devel] [RFC][PATCH] networkd: add a basic network daemon

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 11/06/2013 03:00 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 06.11.13 14:14, Mantas Mikulėnas (grawity at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Lennart Poettering
>> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>>> I have my suspicions that that won't work out since there already are
>>> quite a few properties for addresses, no? There's scope, flags,
>>> label. For Point-To-Point stuff the address needs to be paired with a
>>> local one, and in other cases with a broadcast address. We should at
>>> least try to normalize this into different sections, no?
>> Hmm, when is explicitly setting the broadcast address ever necessary?
> There are some cases like that in hosting setups where people play games
> with this so that they can use tiny subnets while packing hosts as close
> as they can wihouting losing one (or two) adresses in each subnet for
> broadcast (and as network address)...

Interesting first time I hear of this and I assume these "games" became 
unnecessary with ipv6 thus no need to keep Broadcast around no?

JBG