Re: [lwip-users] ip_addr_isbroadcast processing

[Mandeep Sandhu]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Kieran Mansley<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Isn't the netif being used to determine if the passed address fits in as a
subnet broadcast address?

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