Re: [lwip-users] ip_addr_isbroadcast processing

[Kieran Mansley]

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 18:05 +0530, Mandeep Sandhu wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a question on the function ip_addr_isbroadcast():
> 
> Why do we check for destination address even before we've determined
> if the network interface supports broadcast or not? Shouldn't that be
> the first check?

I don't know.  To be honest, I'm a bit surprised the second check is
there (and that the function takes a netif as argument at all).  It
would make more sense to be that the function that tests if the address
is broadcast just tests the address, not the interface properties as
well.

Kieran