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Date:      Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:25:30 +0100 (CET)
From:      Malte Lance <malte.lance@gmx.net>
To:        G.Sittig@abo.FreiePresse.DE
Cc:        malte.lance@gmx.net, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: isppp + dynamic IP
Message-ID:  <199811250925.KAA05714@neuron.webmore.prv>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9811242325080.27943-100000@speedy.gsinet>

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On 25 Nov, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Malte Lance wrote:
> 
>> Some months ago i've written the changes to the sppp-code to enable
>> dynamic-IP-adr-assignment by just giving spppcontrol a command-line-
>> flag, instead of setting the local address to 0.0.0.0. So you got
>> the freedom to set it to any local IP-address without disabling the
>> dynamic-IP-address-assignment. Since nobody on this list was really
>> interested in the changes, i did not bother Hellmuth with the patches.
> 
> That's what i4l does by default.  So you have configured interfaces
> with IP addresses you have to be able to resolve in reverse queries
> when issuing commands like "netstat" and "route".  And once you
> were dialing up to your ISP and hanging up you have an address
> assigned to an interface you don't know (unless you run a local
> named).  That's when "normal" commands trigger another dialup
> due to the DNS query, you get this answer, but you then own a
> different address which you again don't know and start it over
> again and again and ...

Hehe ... dynamic oscillating system ( ugghh... yet another DOS ;)
With my changes the interface fall back to the initial configured
local-IP-adr or any other explicitly given IP-adr. This was
due to the dynamic-system-games i had to play with my firewall
when the interface was changing it's local IP-adr on each dialup.
After the line was hung up, my firewall-let-through-a-dialup-trigger-
packet-rule was useless.

> 
>> Here is what i said:
>>  "In short, until the interface has not been assigned
>>   the dynamic IP-adr, the outgoing packets get a source-IP
>>   of 0.0.0.0"
> 
> Now that you corrected my mistake we DO agree here :)

Glad to hear that .... life could be soooo simple.

Malte.

> 
> 
> G.Sittig@abo.FreiePresse.DE

-- 
Malte Lance.

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