From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 2 00:36:38 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA20018 for current-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 00:36:38 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA20011 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 00:36:32 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA20997; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 09:36:30 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA09906; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 09:36:29 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA03111; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 09:12:51 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507020712.JAA03111@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ppp To: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 09:12:50 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9507020032.AA00609@borg.ess.harris.com> from "James Leppek" at Jul 1, 95 08:32:10 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 913 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As James Leppek wrote: > > I suspect the fact that 0.0.0.0 was invalid is why my provider chose it. > This allows them to detect that someone must be provided an IP > (although I would not mind if they would give me a permanent IP :-) ) Perhaps he has been refering to the _PPP_ setup. I've been playing with PPP for the first time yesterday when installing 2.0.5 on my notebook (and i've been impressed about the easyness! :). I think your provider wants you to use 0.0.0.0/0 as your initial adress, meaning ``any IP address is acceptible'' (the trailing /0 means ``I insist on 0 bits of this address to be used.'') But this is only the initial address to the IPCP layer, the actual IP address will be negotiated, and the kernel will only see the correct address. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)