Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:55:53 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rev 1.61 of /sys/netinet/in.c breaks ISDN Message-ID: <20011207095553.D13705@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200112062023.fB6KNWd65603@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Alexander@leidinger.net> <200112061126.fB6BQ5v00774@Magelan.Leidinger.net> <200112061352.fB6DqnE47522@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20011206162840.C82299@sunbay.com> <200112062023.fB6KNWd65603@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:23:32PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > > ISTR that I4B uses some special magical destination address for some > > purpose (0.0.0.0 or something). > > The magical destination address is 0.0.0.1. It is used as a > `placeholder' address for the remote side, so you can add a route to > it. > > Should probably be extended to 0.0.0.*, so you can add more than one > interface that way. (The actual PPP negotiation for the remote side > is simply told to acceppt any suggested address, but this address is > then ignored, and the local end still uses 0.0.0.1 for routing > purposes. This is a big hack, but the only feature you lose is to > directly access your remote router. Any other packets have a > destination address different from the remote router anyway.) > > phk has chosen 0.0.0.1 since it obviously cannot be a meaningful > statically configured address. > OK, but is it really necessary? It's much simpler to add routes over P2P interfaces using the interface name rather than the ``other end's IP address'': route add default -iface tun0 Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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