From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 28 12:45:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B7F37B409 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7A4BCFD; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA21309; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:45:02 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f8SJn9200522; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:49:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 127/8 continued References: <200109271847.f8RIlwi90547@bunrab.catwhisker.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 28 Sep 2001 12:49:09 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200109271847.f8RIlwi90547@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Wolfskill writes: > The math doesn't favor your chosen approach. I guess I'm not expressing myself well enough; I knew everything you said (but thanks anyway -- really) and my chosen approach is working (well enough, at least). But it wasn't easy to do or to learn to do. That "math" is imposed by the design of the FreeBSD (and probably most every other OS) networking software, and is not imposed by Internet standards, because the Internet standards need only cover the data flowing through my DSL router's internal port. (Actually, even further upstream than that if my ISP was accommodating.) All (?) I'm saying is that handing out small blocks of IPs for a small number of computers is a common situation and I doubt that many care whether their local networks are Internet standards compliant as long as they can look like they are to the Internet (which I know they could with modified software). The software should be doing the kludging, not the small-time SAs. (Easier said than done, of course; but not very I suppose, and not compared with all the SA effort devoted it.) Thanks again for trying to set me straight. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message