ipv4 broadcast address

[Peter Gray]

Ansible does not seem to be setting a fact for the broadcast address on eth0 when pulling facts from a mint 16 linux host.

It gets a lot of other stuff: EG

        }, 

        "ansible_default_ipv4": {

            "address": "10.25.26.2", 

            "alias": "eth0", 

            "gateway": "10.25.26.1", 

            "interface": "eth0", 

            "macaddress": "f8:b1:56:cb:3e:47", 

            "mtu": 1500, 

            "netmask": "255.255.254.0", 

            "network": "10.25.26.0", 

            "type": "ether"

        }, 

      

Why no broadcast address?

I know I can compute the broadcast address from the netmask and network entries, but that seems rather difficult. In fact, I cannot work out how to do it without a callout to a local script.

Any ideas welcome on either solution really.

BTW, new ansible user here.