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Date:      Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:26:47 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, 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:  <1594.961712807@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:20:00 BST." <200006222220.XAA02751@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> 

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In message <200006222220.XAA02751@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers writes:

>> 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.
>
>How do you deal with the first connection problem - where that first 
>packet that causes the dial ends up with an incorrect src address ?
>
>ppp(8) does it when NAT is enabled by keeping the old interface 
>address as an alias and just NATing the first connection.

If you want to get dirty, you can actually reach backwards and
poke the actual IP# into the pcb (unless it's a ping packet).

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