Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:04:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd), arch@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Software detection of link integrity Message-ID: <200006222204.PAA94336@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <62967.961624079@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jun 21, 2000 11:47:59 pm"
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > >> But a dial on demand line is a layered concept. You have a transient > >> physical line with a layer on top of it which pretends to be a > >> permanent line. > > > >Which unfortunately doesn't work with a dynamically assigned IP > >number. > > That is a different story alltogether... On the InterJet, if it's dynamic IP and there is no other IP address to use, we actually make one up! Once connected, we renumber the interface of course. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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