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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.

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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    
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