From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 17 10:48:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA01497 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:48:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA01061 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:43:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@korin.warman.org.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA01174; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 19:44:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 19:44:08 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Karl Denninger cc: dennis , Greg Lehey , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig reports bogus netmask In-Reply-To: <19971217094157.37862@mcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Karl Denninger wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 10:08:26AM -0500, dennis wrote: > > use an entire subnet. > > > > Dennis > > Balderdash. > > CISCOs can run un-numbered interfaces (the proper way to do a PTP link where > the terminal end is not a network) and further, can in fact handle and > advertise host routes. And even if you don't want to run unnumbered interface, you waste only 4 addresses (x.x.x.x/255.255.255.252), and even these can be private (e.g. 10.x.x.x)... So I don't see that much waste here. Andrzej Bialecki ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------