From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 4 12:52:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA24065 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 12:52:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA24024; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 12:51:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA07686; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:47:49 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199801042047.UAA07686@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Joerg Wunsch cc: Brian Somers , Greg Lehey , John-Mark Gurney , freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/5404: slXX slip (tun & ppp) interfaces always point to point In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 Jan 1998 19:31:37 +0100." <19980104193137.01479@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 20:47:49 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk [.....] > `Real' networks have broadcast addresses, but aren't point-to-point. > `Real' networks can't share the same local adress for different > interfaces, p2p interfaces can. `Real' networks have native > broadcasting, p2p interfaces don't. p2p interfaces always connect to > just one remote address, that's why they are called by this name. ;) Ok, I'm convinced. I'll change ifconfig so that it doesn't bother showing the netmask if the POINTOPOINT flag is there. > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....