From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 16 23:19:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A2237B41B for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:19:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fBH7JQN66568; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:19:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200112170719.fBH7JQN66568@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Kory Hamzeh" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does FBSD Support Unnumbered Links? In-Reply-To: <005c01c186c4$0aa9d9a0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:19:26 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:28:29 -0800 "Kory Hamzeh" wrote: +------------------ | Does FBSD support unnumbered point-to-point links? I was asked this question | by someone recently. Based on what I could find out from the man pages, I | think the answer is "no". Although I saw some references on various mailing | lists that 4.3 BSD release did support it. +------------------ Do you mean un-numbered in the way that cisco routers may use it on point-to-point and channel connections. A single address on a (perhaps virtual) interface on the router takes the role of the router end address for any number of point to point channels connected to the router. This cuts almost in half the number of IP addresses consumed by point-to-point circuits. I think that the answer is a qualified no. I'm not qualified, though to list the qualifications ;-) -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message