From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 20:59:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24290 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 20:59:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24247 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 20:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA09865; Tue, 5 May 1998 20:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 20:59:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jamie Lawrence cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two Dumb Questions (User Mode PPP and Boot Easy) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980505145930.00b3b970@204.74.82.151> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 May 1998, Jamie Lawrence wrote: > More intelligent? Will lilo work, or do I need (I think it's called) > System Commander? SysCommander is a bit smarter, although it's been known to play with the partition id and confuse the boot blocks. I guess you need to access a secret menu (alt-f10?) and turn that off. > >> set ifaddr 127.1.1.1/0 127.2.2.2/0 255.255.255.0 > >Any reason you need that? You're asking that the local take on 127.1.1.1 > >and the server take 127.2.2.2, but you're flexible. Perhaps slirp doesn't > >like this and you should just take what you're given? These are > >loopback-net addresses anyway, it's not going to hurt anyone if your ip > >changes. > > Sorry I wasn't fully clear on what's going on - slirp doesn't care what > I claim my address is - I've tried a bunch of different ones and they > all work. What matters is the server address - unless I echo the server > IP address back at it, it barfs on the add 0 0 HISADDR line. (This is > with a Netcom shell account, if anyone's made this work there. There > must be what, 4 of us left?) Huh? I don't understand. The `set ifaddr' address shouldn't be needed at all. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message