Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:37:11 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: brian@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_tun.ko seems broken Message-ID: <263.964683431@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:08:18 %2B0200." <616.964609698@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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In message <616.964609698@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>, Sheldon Hearn writes: > >On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:33:07 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > >> Does this have anything to do with your recent change to if_tun.c? > >Nope. I've reverted rev 1.75 of if_tun.c and the behaviour persists. >Someone locally insists that the ifconfig line > > ifconfig tun0 inet 10.0.0.1 > >should work. Any ideas? I think you are seing the "interesting" side effect of the BSD concept of "POINT2POINT" lines. I think we should loose that concept in favour of interfaces using a netmask of 255.255.255.255 and let programs like ppp install a hostroute to the other end when it is reachable. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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