Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 20:47:49 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>, freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/5404: slXX slip (tun & ppp) interfaces always point to point Message-ID: <199801042047.UAA07686@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Jan 1998 19:31:37 %2B0100." <19980104193137.01479@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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[.....] > `Real' networks have broadcast addresses, but aren't point-to-point. > `Real' networks can't share the same local adress for different > interfaces, p2p interfaces can. `Real' networks have native > broadcasting, p2p interfaces don't. p2p interfaces always connect to > just one remote address, that's why they are called by this name. ;) Ok, I'm convinced. I'll change ifconfig so that it doesn't bother showing the netmask if the POINTOPOINT flag is there. > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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