From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 10: 9:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hq.ezo.net (hq.ezo.net [206.150.211.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2317737B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:09:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zinnia (zinnia.ezo.net [206.150.211.129]) by hq.ezo.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA00450 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:12:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jflowers@ezo.net) Message-ID: <001201c018ed$18bbcad0$81d396ce@ezo.net> From: "Jim Flowers" To: Subject: unnumbered connections Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:00:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000F_01C018CB.9146D520" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C018CB.9146D520 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable What is the correct way to set up an unnumbered connection with a = freebsd serial port? Currently I assign the same address to the serial = port local address as the ethernet port with ifconfig except using a = netmask of 0xffffffff and it works but somehow that doesn't seem right. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C018CB.9146D520 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

What is the correct way to set up an = unnumbered=20 connection with a freebsd serial port? Currently I assign the same = address=20 to the serial port local address as the ethernet port with ifconfig = except using=20 a netmask of 0xffffffff and it works but somehow that doesn't seem=20 right.

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