several questions...

[Martin Pohlack]

Tiago Jorge wrote:
> 
>>> is there any problem with the SIOCSIFBRDADDR flag?
>>>
>>
>> In what respect does SIOCSIFBRDADDR differ from SIOCSIFNETMASK? The 
>> latter
>> works in mini_ifconfig (ifconfig.c:151). What error did occur?
>>
>>
> 
> SIOCSIFBRDADDR is the flag to access the ifreq_broadaddr to change the 
> broadcast adress of the NIC using ioctl. check it out here 
> http://docsrv.sco.com/cgi-bin/man/man/html.7tcp/Intro.7tcp.html

Maybe it is not transported correctly by l4vfs, please check
l4/pkg/l4vfs/lib/libc_backends/io/ioctl.c.

It seems your special case is not considered there.

Greets,
Martin