Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 04:21:21 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unnumbered links in PPP ? Message-ID: <199811070421.EAA04893@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 09:29:48 %2B0100." <H000057c019c9a89@MHS>
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> Hi,
>
> My first question was not clear enough - apologies. .. ;-)
>
> I found "unnumbered" links in the OSPF RFC (rfc2328 is the last version)
>
> <quote rfc>
> RFC 2328 OSPF Version 2 April 1998
>
>
> IP interface address
> The IP protocol address for this interface. This uniquely
> identifies the router over the entire internet. An IP
> address is not required on point-to-point networks. Such a
> point-to-point network is called "unnumbered".
>
> </quote>
>
> In unnumbered links, each endpoint of a point-to-point link is anonymous
> and takes its IP address from the router id itself (if a router has 3 ppp
> links, each will have the same "IP address" - they will be singled out by
> the IP address of the other endpoint). This allows to save IP addresses
> and to not use private IP addresses on a backbone network.
>
> So back to the initial question : can the IP stack of FreeBSD support
> such links ? (I don't know what could be the result of an ifconfig
> request on such links, for example)
>
> Hoping my question is a bit clearer this time
>
> TfH
[.....]
Ah, in that case, ``not as far as I know'' :-I
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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