Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 17:49:56 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen Hocking) Subject: Re: PPP Question - help! Message-ID: <199611161649.RAA04961@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611120631.GAA27134@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> from Stephen Hocking at "Nov 12, 96 04:31:29 pm"
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As Stephen Hocking wrote:
> 11-12 16:22:08 [259] Phase: Network
> 11-12 16:22:11 [259] myaddr = 203.12.164.198 hisaddr = 0.0.0.0
> 11-12 16:22:11 [259] OsLinkup: 0.0.0.0
>
> & I ge the message SIOCAIFADDR: Destination address required, clearly because
> this person (for some reason) isn't supplying the address at their end. What
> do I need to set up at my end to make this work? My ppp.conf file has the
set ifaddr 203.12.164.198 203.12.164.1
^^^^^^^^^^^^
...or whatever might be appropriate for the remote end -- he gives you
free choice of the IP address you wanna use? How stupid!
I think you can also specify your side as 0.0.0.0, it will be
negotiated anyway. Watch out the log for whether his side rejects the
address your side is proposing.
--
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. ;-)
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