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Date:      Sun, 13 Jun 1999 10:39:12 +0600 (ESS)
From:      Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp question 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906131037410.279-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <199906122354.AAA28618@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Brian Somers wrote:

> > Hi,
> > i need to set up a ppp connection 
> > 
> > 195.54.15.228 < ---- > 195.54.15.86 
> > (my machine)            (server)
> > 
> > it's not Class C network, so I tried to
> > include 
> >  set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.254.0 0.0.0.0
> > or 
> >  set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.0.0 0.0.0.0
> > to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
> 
> set ifaddr 195.54.15.228 195.54.15.86 255.255.255.0
> 
> may be more straight to the point :-)

It could change, It's not under my control.

> 
> > it connects well, but 'ifconfig -a' gives
> > tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         inet 195.54.15.228 --> 195.54.14.86 netmask 0xffffff00
> >                                                     ^^
> >                                         i expected 0xfffffe00 here
> > 
> > why ? i suspect that is the reason why it doesn't even ping other 
> > side of peer.
> 
> Netmasks are ignored for point-to-point links...  this shouldn't have 
> anything to do with your problem, but the latest versions of ppp 
> *should* get the netmask right.

I have 3.1-RELEASE from feb/1999.

> 
> Take a look at the FAQ (http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html) to 
> get some hints on how to diagnose your problem.
> 
> > Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания)
> > 
> >  Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин)
> 
> -- 
> Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
>       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@OpenBSD.org>
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !          <brian@uk.FreeBSD.org>
> 
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