From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 15 11:04:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA28360 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (root@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net [206.169.44.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA28354 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:04:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA10438; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:04:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulf Zimmermann Message-Id: <199608151804.LAA10438@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> Subject: Re: Routed supports variable-length netmasks? To: cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608151657.QAA10487@wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov> from Chris Shenton at "Aug 15, 96 12:57:53 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm setting up a box as a pppd server, with /30 masks on the ppp > endpoints, and /28 masks on the remote's ethernet. > > I'm having some routing weirdness and was wondering if routed supports > these different-length netmasks? What version of RIP is it? > > If not, would gated do the trick? > > Thanks. > > RIP-v2 should support netmasks. And I had the same problems with routed. Haven't found a way, so I use static routes right now. And will use gated with some other routing protocol later. Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 Lamb Art Internet Services || http://www.Lamb.net/