Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 07:42:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: kieber@sax.de (Ulf Kieber) Subject: Re: ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR): File exists Message-ID: <199508140542.HAA11158@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <40mduf$fvb$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Aug 14, 95 10:55:11 am
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As Peter Wemm wrote: > > There was a "feature" in 2.0.5 that meant that the local address of a > point-to-point link could not be within the same network as any other > interface, with the local subnet size being decided by the netmask of > the remote network. This sounds like it could be it (even though it's surprising that i can log into the machine succesfully using another address, while i've always been unsuccesful with the same address -- the other address has been just 4 above). > There is an undocumented option in the kernel, called something like > P2P_LOCALADDR_SHARE, which works around the problem (with a slight > bug) after I made a lot of noise about this "feature" before 2.0.5 was > released. What's the `slight bug'? Can we use it nevertheless? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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