From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 29 14: 2:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B614237B40C for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:02:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF72BD18; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01387; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:02:17 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f8TL6IF04102; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Andy Sparrow Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 127/8 continued References: <20010928223358.11AE43E2A@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 29 Sep 2001 14:06:17 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20010928223358.11AE43E2A@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andy Sparrow writes: > ObDataPoint: The Jargon File (for the Latin-illiterate) is missing that one. > Solaris lets you set the POINTTOPOINT flag on ethernet links via ifconfig. Which brings up another usability issue: FreeBSD's "ifconfig", which doesn't let you set the flag, doesn't complain when you try: $ ifconfig de0 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2; echo $? 0 $ ifconfig de0 de0: flags=8c43 mtu 1500 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message