From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 27 5: 8:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (wandering-wizard.cybercity.dk [212.242.43.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6E637B934; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00265; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:37:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: brian@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_tun.ko seems broken In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:08:18 +0200." <616.964609698@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:37:11 +0200 Message-ID: <263.964683431@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <616.964609698@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>, Sheldon Hearn writes: > >On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:33:07 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > >> Does this have anything to do with your recent change to if_tun.c? > >Nope. I've reverted rev 1.75 of if_tun.c and the behaviour persists. >Someone locally insists that the ifconfig line > > ifconfig tun0 inet 10.0.0.1 > >should work. Any ideas? I think you are seing the "interesting" side effect of the BSD concept of "POINT2POINT" lines. I think we should loose that concept in favour of interfaces using a netmask of 255.255.255.255 and let programs like ppp install a hostroute to the other end when it is reachable. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message