Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 15:03:06 -0700 From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@thirdage.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two Dumb Questions (User Mode PPP and Boot Easy) Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980506150306.00b69b20@204.74.82.151> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505205742.9802K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> References: <3.0.5.32.19980505145930.00b3b970@204.74.82.151>
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At 08:59 PM 5/5/98 -0700, you wrote: >On Tue, 5 May 1998, Jamie Lawrence wrote: >SysCommander is a bit smarter, although it's been known to play with the >partition id and confuse the boot blocks. I guess you need to access a >secret menu (alt-f10?) and turn that off. Great - I'll give it a try. >> >> set ifaddr 127.1.1.1/0 127.2.2.2/0 255.255.255.0 > >> >Any reason you need that? You're asking that the local take on 127.1.1.1 >> >and the server take 127.2.2.2, but you're flexible. Perhaps slirp doesn't >> >like this and you should just take what you're given? These are >> >loopback-net addresses anyway, it's not going to hurt anyone if your ip >> >changes. >> >> Sorry I wasn't fully clear on what's going on - slirp doesn't care what >> I claim my address is - I've tried a bunch of different ones and they >> all work. What matters is the server address - unless I echo the server >> IP address back at it, it barfs on the add 0 0 HISADDR line. (This is >> with a Netcom shell account, if anyone's made this work there. There >> must be what, 4 of us left?) > >Huh? I don't understand. The `set ifaddr' address shouldn't be needed at >all. It's probably me who doesn't understand (I've only setup kernel mode PPP before)... I thought the 'set ifaddr' was mandatory for IP address negotiation. I guess I'll try leaving it out and seeing what happens tonight... -j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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