From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 16 08:53:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA07470 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 08:53:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA07415 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 08:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id RAA21146; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 17:51:46 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA07978; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 17:51:46 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id RAA04961; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 17:49:56 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611161649.RAA04961@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: PPP Question - help! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 17:49:56 +0100 (MET) Cc: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen Hocking) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611120631.GAA27134@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> from Stephen Hocking at "Nov 12, 96 04:31:29 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (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 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. ;-)