Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:06:36 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting PPP netmask! HOW! Message-ID: <199611112106.OAA21257@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961111214235.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <199611111453.JAA01072@etinc.com> <Mutt.19961111214235.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Ollivier Robert writes: > According to dennis: > > market. I believe that the netmask is meaningless on a PTP interface, > > so even if you get it to display the way you want you won't have > > achieved much of anything. > > That's not true. No, Dennis is correct. PPP (and all Point-Point links) use host routing, not subnet routing. You can use subnet routing over PTP links, but that's irrelevant of the netmask on the PPP link. > It would be impossible to send packets to my ethernet and to the Internet > thru the PPP at the same time if subnets were not handled correctly by > "pppd" (kernel PPP). Why? You simply setup the routing to send all traffic to each of the subnets to the PPP host which lives on that network. Nate
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