Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:29:33 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig reports bogus netmask Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971217112513.19484D-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19971217100825.00d45930@etinc.com>
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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, dennis wrote: > Your ISP, unfortunately, most likely uses Ciscos, which CANNOT route to > hosts. Ciscos can only route to nets, so you must set the PTP interface > to a subnet mask. This is a waste of a net and arguably wrong (since there > is, in fact, no network), but we live in a world of ciscoheads. With unix > you only need use 2 addresses per PTP interface..with ciscos you need to > use an entire subnet. Tsk -- you haven't read your Stevens. You only need one address per PTP interface, on the downlink side. The host acting as terminal server can use one IP address for all its PTP interfaces. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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