Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:30:44 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FBSD Support Unnumbered Links? Message-ID: <20011216223044.B92038@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <005c01c186c4$0aa9d9a0$14ce21c7@avatar.com>; from kory@avatar.com on Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 10:28:29PM -0800 References: <005c01c186c4$0aa9d9a0$14ce21c7@avatar.com>
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> >This is a 2nd try -- I did not get any replies to the first attempt. > >Does FBSD support unnumbered point-to-point links? I was asked this question >by someone recently. Based on what I could find out from the man pages, I >think the answer is "no". Although I saw some references on various mailing >lists that 4.3 BSD release did support it. If I understand what you're asking, the answer is "yes", sort of. You can assign the local endpoint of a point-to-point as the same address as your LAN address and FreeBSD will be happy. You need not allocate a seperate address to the PTP circuit. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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