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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:43:56 -0400
To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>
From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Subject: Re: ET card problem?
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At 03:56 PM 6/25/98 -0700, you wrote:
>We just setup a FreeBSD router(second one) today. It is working fine except
>we'd like to fix something if possible... the "from" address of the machine
>is the interface of the router card, as opposed to the NIC card. Is this by
>design, or is there a way to change it? Here is what ifconfig -a looks like
>:
>
>eth0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> mtu 1500
>        inet 209.150.92.198 --> 209.150.92.193 netmask 0xffffff00
>eth1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500
>eth2: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500
>eth3: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500
>ed2: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        inet 209.150.92.72 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 209.150.92.127
>        inet 209.203.66.17 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 209.203.66.31
>        ether 00:80:ad:b6:56:36
>lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>tun0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
>ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>
>thanks....

the local address is what you give it when you run ifconfig. The "card" is
just
a piece of hardware. You can set the local address to anything you want.
Whether
it will work the way you expect is a FreeBSD issue and not a driver issue.

dennis
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