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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:42:43 +0100 (CET)
From:      Malte Lance <malte.lance@gmx.net>
To:        G.Sittig@abo.FreiePresse.DE
Cc:        freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: isppp + dynamic IP
Message-ID:  <199812020842.JAA00563@neuron.webmore.prv>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9811251912030.27943-100000@speedy.gsinet>

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On 25 Nov, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Malte Lance wrote:
> 
>> On 25 Nov, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
>> > 
>> > [ ... "misconfigured" interface upon hangup since the
>> >   address is assigned dynamically and so it's obsolete ... ]
>> 
>> Hehe ... dynamic oscillating system ( ugghh... yet another DOS ;)
>> With my changes the interface fall back to the initial configured
>> local-IP-adr or any other explicitly given IP-adr. This was
>> due to the dynamic-system-games i had to play with my firewall
>> when the interface was changing it's local IP-adr on each dialup.
>> After the line was hung up, my firewall-let-through-a-dialup-trigger-
>> packet-rule was useless.
> 
> Don't get me wrong, please.  The frequency (if any) of this system
> will be the frequency you hangup with and call "route" or something
> without -n or trigger any other DNS query ...

Aha ... ok. Ever tried a tcpdump on isppp without the "-n" option ?
That's a real fun, if isppp is the route for your DNS-packets.

>> Glad to hear that .... life could be soooo simple.
> 
> ... if all the unices would be somewhat more close together instead
> of being split even more than the few mainstream systems spread all
> over ?  SCNR

Sad but very true.

Malte.

> G.Sittig@abo.FreiePresse.DE

-- 
Malte Lance.

--- composed with TkRat


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