From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 5 19:01:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA08059 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 19:01:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA08034 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 19:01:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26427; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 01:59:09 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA27625; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 02:00:08 GMT (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199811060200.CAA27625@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unnumbered links in PPP ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 10:15:29 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 02:00:08 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello, > > I've just looked at the man page for 2.2.7-R PPP and I don't find any > mention of unnumbered links (which allows not to assign an IP address to > each extremity of a PPP link). > > Q : will there be any support for PPP unnumbered links in FreeBSD ? (I > understand it's perhaps not technically possible, due to the way routing > is implemented in a BSD kernel) What do you mean by unnumbered ? If you mean that you want on demand dialing, take a look at the -auto switch. > TIA > TfH -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message