From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jun 5 11: 7:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.posi.net (12-236-90-177.client.attbi.com [12.236.90.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A441A37B405 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:07:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.posi.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g55I7nM7037341; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:07:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:07:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Kelly Yancey To: Iasen Kostov Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: host routes for interface addresses In-Reply-To: <20020605134856.R82177-100000@shadowhand.OTEL.net> Message-ID: <20020605104046.J37253-100000@gateway.posi.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Iasen Kostov wrote: > It works fine (just a warrning) with 4.4 kernel and before, but in 4.5 > there is a check for host route addition and if it fail to add a route > it also fails to set iface address (ofcourse I've patch it for myself). > I need this not just for saving IPs but it's somewhat easier to route > just throw iface i not to care about iface IPs. And something more, You > know that the router has 1 IP and thats it , don't care on which iface > Your are connected right now, it has 1 IP and thats your gateway. > This scheme looks a bit like Cisco's "ip unnumbered" interfaces and I > don't think it's a bad idea. > You might want to take a look at Marko Zec's VIPA patches that he posted to -net a few days ago. You should be able to find it in the mailing list archives under the subject "Patch for review: source VIPA". If you have the time to review/test his patches, then perhaps we can get it into a future release of FreeBSD (solving your problem with a viable long-term solution). Thanks, Kelly kbyanc@{posi.net,FreeBSD.org} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message