From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 20:49:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA22382 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:49:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (root@[206.206.98.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA22372 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:49:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from Scott-Home (d1-d1b [206.206.98.103]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA01151; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:49:34 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:49:34 -0700 Message-Id: <199601300449.VAA01151@srv1.thuntek.net> X-Sender: thor@thuntek.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.1.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Scott Halbert Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Cc: Joe Greco , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 08:36 PM 1/29/96 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> I've assigned IP address in blocks of 10: 1 for the pc server and 2 >> each for the 4 ppp ports. At this point they are entirely incoming. I also > >Why 2, just out of curiousity? You need an in and out for each PPP. The user PPP examples are a little opaque. Am I missing something, can I share the in addresses in some way or can they be the same as the ethernet address? I am used to this for other multi-homed things so I didn't think it was too wierd but didn't have too much time to experiment before I put into production. >> and so had just a fixed address. I can see your point about a shared >> dialout resource pool and how to do the IP addresses (and how to advertise >> the dynamic arps or route paths). It'd be quite a chore. >Oh, I dunno.. It would be interesting to sit down and hammer out a >spec. If there's sufficient interest, perhaps we should take it up in >the freebsd-isp mailing list. Yes. I don't do a lot of dialout yet, but I'd really like to see this kind of thing in FreeBSD. Would it have to be patched into the user ppp software, or as you said would it be done as a set of daemons? > Jordan ---Scott Halbert Thunder Network Technologies