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Date:      Mon, 11 Nov 1996 07:39:41 +0100
From:      roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting PPP netmask! HOW!
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19961111073941.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <32872DC6.41C67EA6@planetx.com.au>; from James Gardiner [hunter] on Nov 11, 1996 13:44:38 %2B0000
References:  <32872DC6.41C67EA6@planetx.com.au>

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According to James Gardiner [hunter]:
> Anyway, what I need is to change the following
> ---
> ifconfig tun0
> tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 203.16.241.10 --> 203.8.105.10 netmask 0xffffff00 
> ---
> so the netmask is 0xfffffff8.
> If anyone knows how to do this I would love to know!

I am afraid it is a known [by the author] bug of iij-ppp. I tried to get
the same thing as you a while ago, found that it didn't work, contacted the
author and reverted to kernel pppd, which will do it fine.

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
  FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #28: Sun Nov 10 13:37:41 MET 1996



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