Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:40:08 -0400 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: nsayer@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PTP ethernets Message-ID: <200007311627.MAA14710@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <3981ED7D.4B836035@sftw.com> References: <200007272323.TAA04240@etinc.com> <200007280020.UAA04422@etinc.com>
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Thats not really feasible as the target customers are on DSL ethernet bridges and i doubt if they support pppoe. Is there any reason why the PTP doesnt work? Hacking is not out of the question, but im not sure what the problem is. Dennis At 01:30 PM 7/28/00 -0700, Nick Sayer wrote: >Dennis wrote: > >> At 06:47 PM 7/27/00 -0500, Kim Shrier wrote: >> >If I understand your question correctly, all you need to do to set up >> >a ptp ethernet link is: >> > >> >ifconfig fxp0 inet 200.1.1.1 200.1.1.2 >> >> It *seems* like that should work, but it doesnt. >> >> When ping from one machine to another, the receiver doesnt respond and ip >> stats show "upsupported protocol" counter increasing accordingly. On the >> lan monitor the packet looks ok, so i dont quite understand why it doesnt >> work. >> >> dennis >> > >> > >> >Dennis wrote: >> >> >> >> Is it possible to have only one address on an ethernet network? the only >> >> way that I can get it to work is with: >> >> >> >> ifconfig fxp0 200.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 >> >> route add fxp0 200.1.1.2 -interface fxp0 >> >> arp -s 200.1.1.2 ether-address >> >> >> >> Is there a way to get such a setup to work dynamically with ARPs? >> >> >> >> DB >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message >> > >> >-- >> > Kim Shrier - principal, Shrier and Deihl - mailto:kim@tinker.com >> >Remote Unix Network Admin, Security, Internet Software Development >> > Tinker Internet Services - Superior FreeBSD-based Web Hosting >> > http://www.tinker.com/ >> > >> > >> >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message >> > >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > >Probably the only real way to do this is to run PPPoE. In essence, this >results >in a point-to-point link with Ethernet framing. You end up using tun0 with the > >Ethernet interface merely marked as 'up' but with no IP configuration at all. >If you have a /modules/ng_pppoe.ko on your machine, then I believe ppp can >do PPPoE, at least as a client. You may need the help of the mpd-netgraph >port to do a PPPoE server. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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