Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:23:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, pst@freefall.freebsd.org, current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: feedback sought on proposed change to netstart Message-ID: <199604121523.KAA17598@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <11270.829305194@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 12, 96 03:33:14 am
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> > You can't ifconfig some interfaces until they are setup, you don't want > > to ifconfig a slip line until sl0 is setup, same goes for ppp. > > Really? Why not? If you ifconfig sl0 with some address parameters > and then slattach it, it works fine. Same with ppp. I'm not saying > it's the best of ideas to do so, but as far as I can tell the values > certainly "stick" and the device goes "up" just as soon as slattach or > ppp negotiates the connection successfully. Strange things seem to happen with routing sometimes (at least in similar cases I've seen). ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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