From owner-freebsd-net Thu Nov 18 12:34:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-18.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F55F154BD for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:34:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA03408; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:34:45 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA02780; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:39:19 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199911182039.UAA02780@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: clark@pharlap.com (Clark Jarvis) Cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: rinit: wrong ifa (0xc09ba580) was (0xc0854880) - candidate for removal In-Reply-To: Message from clark@pharlap.com (Clark Jarvis) of "Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:50:02 EST." <19991118154521924.AAA306@sugar.pharlap.com@clark> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:39:19 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > In <199911172311.XAA03573@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>, on 11/17/99 > at 11:11 PM, Brian Somers said: > > >This is a feature :-) It defeats the first-connection problem with > >dynamic IP numbers. It can be disabled with ``disable iface-alias'' and > >can be kept in control with an ``iface clear'' in ppp.linkdown - see > >share/examples/ppp.linkdown.sample. > > Brian, can you quickly describe the first-connection-... problem? I don't > remember seeing anything about this. A pointer to a description in the > code or somesuch would be OK too, of course. It's mentioned at http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html somewhere. > -- > Thanks, > Clark -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message