Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:07:36 -0800 From: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Does FBSD Support Unnumbered Links? Message-ID: <001201c1872e$16a2d4e0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> In-Reply-To: <20011217165955.M14500@monorchid.lemis.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@FreeBSD.org] > Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 10:30 PM > To: Kory Hamzeh > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Does FBSD Support Unnumbered Links? > Importance: High > > > On Sunday, 16 December 2001 at 22:28:29 -0800, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > > > > This is a 2nd try -- I did not get any replies to the first attempt. > > > > Does FBSD support unnumbered point-to-point links? I was asked > this question > > by someone recently. Based on what I could find out from the > man pages, I > > think the answer is "no". Although I saw some references on > various mailing > > lists that 4.3 BSD release did support it. > > I'm not sure what kind of link you're talking about. Can you > elaborate, please? > Hi Greg, An unnumbered point-to-point link is a link in which the local address assigned to the link is either 0.0.0.0 or same as an address of another interface (typically, the first Ethernet). Since the local IP address on P-T-P links has very little use, unnumbered links allow you to conserve IP addresses. Most decent routers do support this feature. Thanks, Kory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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