From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 16 05:00:15 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA21939 for current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 05:00:15 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com ([198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA21929 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 05:00:13 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id HAA06401; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 07:53:33 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 07:53:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: point-to-point links require destination addr To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk in 2.0.5 and later, point-to-point links, lp0 and sl0 (have not tried ppp0) require a destination address in the ifconfig line. this was not the case previously. if the destination is omitted 'ifconfig sl0 inet 111.222.333.444' EADDRNOTAVAIL 'Can't assign requested address' is returned. can this be changed to EDESTADDRREQ 'Destination address required' bug report kern/619 (from memory, submitted by me on friday--yes i can see how busy everyone is--an ulterior motive is to send mail to current for a test purpose, and include some useful information inplace of the usual 'this message left blank' ;) include the one line diff jmb Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346