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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 06.11.13 15:09, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson (johannbg at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> 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?

Well, IPv4 will be with us for a long time still, so we cannot just make
it go away, just because it might not be that important with IPv6 anymore...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat