From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 2 09:51:48 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA04996 for current-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 09:51:48 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA04989 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 09:51:45 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA00932; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 18:51:42 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA12889; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 18:51:41 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA00415; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 18:50:14 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507021650.SAA00415@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ppp To: jleppek@harris.com (Jim Leppek) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 18:50:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199507021426.KAA00305@cyclops> from "Jim Leppek" at Jul 2, 95 10:26:59 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 862 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jim Leppek wrote: > > > Yes, my provider wants to see 0.0.0.0 during the initial negotiation > phase however thats the problem. A 0.0.0.0 address gets converted to > 192.0.0.1 within the ppp even if you set ifaddr 0 0. > This occurs in ipcp.c around line 164 per my earlier mail message. > It is this forced ( and hidden ) conversion that I question. > When I set my initial address to 0.0.0.0 I expect ppp to use it. Sorry, i've got confused. I've been in the belief that it happened later, but it's apparently been during the IPCP phase. Ok. Btw., i don't know about the kernel-ppp, but couldn't you give any address as long as you're specifying the /0 (i.e., don't insist on getting a particular address)? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)