From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 11:20:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12502 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:20:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12491 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA29703; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdD29695; Mon Aug 10 18:05:44 1998 Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:05:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Stan Brown cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Unumbered routing ????? In-Reply-To: <199808101708.KAA02916@hub.freebsd.org> 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 Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > My local ISP has just changed there configuration, and now I am having > troubles. > > They are sufesting the I try something called "unumbered routing". I am > unfamiliar with this, could someoen point me in the direction of some > info on this? > > I am using user mode ppp if it matters. > > Thanks. > > -- > Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 770-996-6955 > Factory Automation Systems > Atlanta Ga. > -- we need to know a little more about what they changed.. theoretically if you cae set it up correctly, the ppp link should negotiate a different address each time it connects, and should fix the default route when it has negatiated the remote adress. FreeBSD actually can support truely un-numbered routing.. however I'm not sure how it would be implemented in this case. (it's done with a command somewhat like "route add default -interface tun0" (I haven't done it for a while) however it still leads to problems because locally generated packets will still have the address negotiated, and if that is not correct packets can still not get back to you.. it sounds as if your ISP has gone from static addresses to dynamic addresses, which means that you should check that you are allowing the ppp daemon to negotiate everything, and are not specifying too much. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message