From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 20:37:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA06544 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 20:37:47 -0700 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA06537 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 20:37:42 -0700 Received: from hpautow.aus.hp.com by hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.15/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA193251458; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 20:37:38 -0700 Message-Id: <199504110337.AA193251458@hp.com> Received: by hpautow.aus.hp.com (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA04329; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:37:30 +1000 From: M C Wong Subject: Re: shared IP address ? To: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com (M C Wong) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:37:30 EST Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199504102332.AA037136774@hp.com>; from "M C Wong" at Apr 11, 95 9:32 am X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14.c] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > FreeBSD Annex router > +-----+ +-----+ > | |-- modem --- ............. --- modem ----| | > +-----+ ^ ^ +-----+ > | | > /dev/tty0, sl0, 203.13.47.32 unspecified > > > and I was told to do the following : > > 1. connect to the remote modem > 2. ifconfig sl0 inet up 203.13.47.32 netmask 255.255.255.0 > Yes, he said it over 10 times or so, this is *NOT* a point-to-point link, > and I *MUST* leave the destination IP address out. However, I believe on > 1.* FreeBSD, sl* are configured to be point-to-point interface even without > specifying destination IP address (as seen from ifconfig sl0 command) ? > 3. route add default 203.13.47.32 > > Many thanks in advance. > Ok with follow up to my own message, I want to know can the above Annex setup be considered a dial-up router ? Regards.