Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 09:12:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <199507020712.JAA03111@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9507020032.AA00609@borg.ess.harris.com> from "James Leppek" at Jul 1, 95 08:32:10 pm
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As James Leppek wrote: > > I suspect the fact that 0.0.0.0 was invalid is why my provider chose it. > This allows them to detect that someone must be provided an IP > (although I would not mind if they would give me a permanent IP :-) ) Perhaps he has been refering to the _PPP_ setup. I've been playing with PPP for the first time yesterday when installing 2.0.5 on my notebook (and i've been impressed about the easyness! :). I think your provider wants you to use 0.0.0.0/0 as your initial adress, meaning ``any IP address is acceptible'' (the trailing /0 means ``I insist on 0 bits of this address to be used.'') But this is only the initial address to the IPCP layer, the actual IP address will be negotiated, and the kernel will only see the correct 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. ;-)
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