After upgrading to OpenRC 0.9.4 the broadcast address does not get set on net.eth0 and defaults to 0.0.0.0. I have a number of VMs which are essentially identical and those which do not have iproute2 installed (i.e. use ifconfig) do not have a problem. $ equery l openrc * Searching for openrc ... [IP-] [ ] sys-apps/openrc-0.9.4:0 $ equery l iproute2 * Searching for iproute2 ... [IP-] [ ] sys-apps/iproute2-2.6.35-r2:0 $ grep eth0 /etc/conf.d/net config_eth0="192.168.2.100/24" dns_domain_eth0="sub.example.com" dns_servers_eth0="192.168.2.50 192.168.2.100" dns_search_eth0="example.com sub.example.com" routes_eth0="default via 192.168.2.254" If I compare the output of a working/non-working machine when running the init script with --debug I see the following interesting difference: -+ ip addr add 192.168.2.100/24 dev eth0 ++ ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.155 netmask 255.255.255.0 I believe in the case with iproute2 then it should execute this line when a broadcast address is not specified in the net conf.d ip addr add 192.168.2.100/24 broadcast + dev eth0 Apparently the behaviour of ifconfig automatically calculates the broadcast address when it is not specified. I believe the fix is to intialise the broadcast variable as "broadcast +" in the _add_address() function of /lib/rc/net/iproute2.sh or to set it to "broadcast +" if it is empty after the options are parsed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot virtual machine, examine interface configuration 2. 3. Actual Results: broadcast address is 0.0.0.0 Expected Results: broadcast address is 192.168.2.255
This is fixed in commit a1c6559. Thanks for the report.
