From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 17 08:30:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA22310 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 08:30:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA22267 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 08:29:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA24014; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:29:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:29:33 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre To: dennis cc: Greg Lehey , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig reports bogus netmask In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19971217100825.00d45930@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, dennis wrote: > Your ISP, unfortunately, most likely uses Ciscos, which CANNOT route to > hosts. Ciscos can only route to nets, so you must set the PTP interface > to a subnet mask. This is a waste of a net and arguably wrong (since there > is, in fact, no network), but we live in a world of ciscoheads. With unix > you only need use 2 addresses per PTP interface..with ciscos you need to > use an entire subnet. Tsk -- you haven't read your Stevens. You only need one address per PTP interface, on the downlink side. The host acting as terminal server can use one IP address for all its PTP interfaces. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."