From owner-freebsd-isdn Wed Dec 8 15:15:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-62.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48EBA14BF1 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:15:36 -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 WAA01685; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 22:21:38 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 WAA17842; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 22:22:51 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199912082222.WAA17842@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: Juergen Lock , freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: i4b syncppp not talking with Ascend Max - followup In-Reply-To: Message from Gary Jennejohn of "Wed, 08 Dec 1999 10:10:08 +0100." <199912080910.KAA06613@peedub.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 22:22:50 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > As a followup to my previous mail, it seems like this trivial change > should allow each isp interface (up to 15) to be assigned a unique > address. I expect that this would eliminate the problems which we've > been seeing when more than one interface has 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.1 assigned, > since we could now use 0.0.0.0/[0.0.0.1 thru 0.0.0.15] instead, which > should be enough for most users ;-) [.....] I don't really think this is the right way to go... these magic IP numbers should be chosen by the user..... I feel the same about 0.0.0.0 though. In real life, there should be a way of UPing an interface without assigning a local address, having ports bind to this ``to be assigned'' address and then ultimately tidying everything up when the interface is finally configured. Until then, nothing can arrive on the interface, but stuff can be routed to wherever the destination address points. The local address 0.0.0.0 is reasonable, but lots more support is needed - it's non-trivial :-| > --- > Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de garyj@fkr.cpqcorp.net gj@freebsd.org -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message