Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 04:21:21 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unnumbered links in PPP ? Message-ID: <199811070421.EAA04893@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 09:29:48 %2B0100." <H000057c019c9a89@MHS>
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> Hi, > > My first question was not clear enough - apologies. .. ;-) > > I found "unnumbered" links in the OSPF RFC (rfc2328 is the last version) > > <quote rfc> > RFC 2328 OSPF Version 2 April 1998 > > > IP interface address > The IP protocol address for this interface. This uniquely > identifies the router over the entire internet. An IP > address is not required on point-to-point networks. Such a > point-to-point network is called "unnumbered". > > </quote> > > In unnumbered links, each endpoint of a point-to-point link is anonymous > and takes its IP address from the router id itself (if a router has 3 ppp > links, each will have the same "IP address" - they will be singled out by > the IP address of the other endpoint). This allows to save IP addresses > and to not use private IP addresses on a backbone network. > > So back to the initial question : can the IP stack of FreeBSD support > such links ? (I don't know what could be the result of an ifconfig > request on such links, for example) > > Hoping my question is a bit clearer this time > > TfH [.....] Ah, in that case, ``not as far as I know'' :-I -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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