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Date:      Sun, 7 Dec 1997 17:19:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Route behaviour (was Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp command.c ppp.8 route.c)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.971207171801.20348G-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <8690twpu17.fsf@bitbox.follo.net>

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I had changes that made the outgoing packets take the first IP address of
the interface if there was no address already bound..
don't know what happenned to them.


On 8 Dec 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> 
> > brian       1997/12/06 20:09:16 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     usr.sbin/ppp         command.c ppp.8 route.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Only allow one arg to `delete' - the mask & gateway aren't necessary.
> >   Delete AF_LINK routes as well as AF_INET.
> >   Allow the word `default' as the arg to `delete' or in place of the
> >   first two args (dest & netmask) to `add'.
> >   Accept INTERFACE as the third arg to `add'.
> >   
> >     You can now say `add default interface' to create a default route
> >     through the tun interface.  It's reported that subsequent bind()s
> >     will bind to a broadcast address and not to the address currently
> >     assigned to the tun device - this is the first step towards
> >     supporting that first connection that was around from before the
> >     dynamic IP negotiation....
> 
> I've been thinking a bit more about it, and now I consider this
> binding a bug.  With an interface route to an interface with no
> assigned address, we're actually sending packets onto the network that 
> hasn't got a legit source address.
> 
> This works for the single case where there is a NAT engine at the
> other end of that link, but that is also the _only_ case it works for.
> 
> I'm still a bit uncertain about what would be the best approach -
> probably binding to another interface in the machine.  That's weird
> too, but probably less surprising never the less 
> 
> What do other people think?  Is this feasible given the way routing is 
> implemented in the FreeBSD kernel?
> 
> Eivind.
> 




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