From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 5 20:46:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA20333 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 20:46:43 -0700 Received: from specgw.spec.co.jp (specgw.spec.co.jp [202.32.13.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA20310 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 20:45:32 -0700 Received: from tama3.spec.co.jp (tama3 [202.32.13.252]) by specgw.spec.co.jp (8.6.5/3.3Wb-SPEC) with SMTP id MAA28642; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 12:38:26 +0900 Message-Id: <9507060348.AA00094@tama3.spec.co.jp.spec.co.jp> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 12:48:50 +0900 From: Atsushi Murai To: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com Cc: davidg@Root.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: another reason not to change 0.0.0.0 into 192.0.0.1 in PPP In-Reply-To: <9507060316.AA03513@borg.ess.harris.com> X-Mailer: AL-Mail 0.94Beta Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek) wrote: :Atsushi, :my peer accepts the valid IP. The negotiation works as it should. : :if a client provides an IP that is a hint to the provider :that the client would "prefer" that address. The protocol provides :the ability for the provider to refuse and offer an alternate. :There are no rules about when the provider should refuse. Right. There are no rules about when the provider should refuse. I guess my explanation by English too much funny for you. But I will try to explain it. Why your provider ppp is requestd for giving a new address by only "0.0.0.0" ? - No matter what address passing to your provider, they should give you new address if they can't accepted. :The ppp program works just fine there is nothing wrong with :it. This entire thread is about the 2 lines of code that :translated 0.0.0.0 to 192.0.0.1 As I mentioned previous mail as "historical reason", NetBlazer (I don't have model name and firmware verison is old or current one) could accept "0.0.0.0" as real ip address without proposing a new valid address. So they choose "192.0.0.1" for temporary address for starting a negotiation when set up "ifaddr 0 0". :Those 2 line just happened to have caused some confusion. :Not with the PPP protocol but with me (and apparently others) as to why :it was in there. :There is nothing wrong with my ppp link. I maintain a dedicated :link with it which I am using now :-) : :This is why my log files are not important or at issue. Please give me it for make a plan for every things going right. (Please don't say I couldn't make *negotiation* unless "0.0.0.0";-) :Jim Leppek Atsushi. P.S. I am going to get out down town of tokyo now. But I will make a response whenever get back.(Hoply within same day;-) -- Atsushi Murai E-Mail: amurai@spec.co.jp SPEC Voice : +81-3-3833-5341 System Planning and Engineering Corp.