From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 10 22:46:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA21249 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 22:46:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA21244 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 22:46:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA31987 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 07:45:56 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id HAA06226 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 07:45:22 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.2/keltia-uucp-2.9) id HAA22524; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 07:39:42 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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! References: <32872DC6.41C67EA6@planetx.com.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.50.04 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2686 In-Reply-To: <32872DC6.41C67EA6@planetx.com.au>; from James Gardiner [hunter] on Nov 11, 1996 13:44:38 +0000 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to James Gardiner [hunter]: > Anyway, what I need is to change the following > --- > ifconfig tun0 > tun0: flags=8051 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