On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:44:47PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > You need to configure /some/ interface address for the remote end > > > anyway, and it must not clash with any other routing table entry, > > > since "ifconfig ... up" always adds an entry for the remote IP address > > > for p2p interfaces. > > > Only if you have INET address configured on an interface. > > That's the purpose of an sppp interface. You can't do anything with > it unless an INET address has been configured to it. (In the case of > an automatic dialer -- which is what many ISDN users are using -- you > need the IP traffic generated by normal routing in order to trigger > the ISDN dialout.) > ifconfig isp0 up route add default -iface isp0
Won't this work, without prior configuring any INET addresses? This will definitely trigger a traffic through the interface. > > Why not just bring the interface up first, then negotiate an address, > > then add it to interface? > > Because it'll become a chicken-and-egg problem: the interface would > never start negotiating PPP in that case. > Still don't get it, sorry. :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software AG, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
