On Wed, 12 May 1999, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> in order for all the standard utilities like 'call' and so forth to work. If
> I were feeling a bit bolshy I might venture to suggest that this may be an
> undesirable feature, but I am not so I won't.
>
> But I think I am allowed to ask the question why it is necessary to give an
> IP address to an interface that isn't using IP (at least in my case).
My memory is a bit faint but as far as I remember netrom hasn't changed
almost at all between 2.0.36 and 2.2.x. I have never investigated this
"new" behaviour because I have always given an IP-address to all of my
interfaces even if IP isn't used over some of them. It does no harm after
all. Anyway I _think_ the cause for the change is somewhere in the core
networking code. We haven't changed anything but they have. After all
netrom is just one small module implementing a protocol for the networking
code to use. Just like ip or appletalk or...
> Whilst I am about it, every other module in the system uses /etc/conf.modules
> and parameters to the module to indicate local configuration. I have to
> wonder ax25 modules should be any different.
Err... Are you suggesting we should include all [ax|nr|rs]ports etc. info
in the module command line or what? That'd be quite a mess on a busy
node/router site...
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