From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 12 08:24:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA10826 for current-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:24:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA10821 Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA17598; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:23:02 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199604121523.KAA17598@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: feedback sought on proposed change to netstart To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:23:02 -0500 (CDT) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, pst@freefall.freebsd.org, current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <11270.829305194@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 12, 96 03:33:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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