On 12/10/2017 17:04, Tom Smyth wrote:
Hi Ingo,
First of all thanks for the feedback it is appreciated,
especially when you think the thread is a waste of time.
so rather than look for feedback on another patch for now
If you could bear with me and let me outline
why I think this thread is impo
Hi Ingo,
First of all thanks for the feedback it is appreciated,
especially when you think the thread is a waste of time.
so rather than look for feedback on another patch for now
If you could bear with me and let me outline
why I think this thread is important
important enough to be my first pr
Hi Tom,
it is still completely unclear what you are even trying to talk
about. The patch is certainly not acceptable, it is vague,
highly confusing, and fails to state what it is all about.
If what you are trying to document is the so-called "IP unnumbered"
hack: That is an abomination brewed b
Hello Stuart, all,
Thanks for the corrections Stuart,
I have corrected the patch to take into account your suggestions
and I hope this proposed patch is more correct and useful
Index: src/share/man/man5/hostname.if.5
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RCS file: /cvs
On 2017/10/02 03:04, Tom Smyth wrote:
> Hello,
>
> But the Ip configuration syntax in hostname.if is the same.
For a /31 you just use e.g. "inet 192.0.2.100/31" (and it works properly
in other parts of the system, e.g. ospfd).
> Is there anything specifically wrong in the proposed patch ?
This
Hello,
But the Ip configuration syntax in hostname.if is the same.
(appart from a /31 having a sequential ip address pair that starts
on an even numbered ip) while a point to point / ip unumbered setup
would have any arbitary pair of ips on the interface.
Is there anything specifically wrong in th
On 2017/10/01 19:18, Tom Smyth wrote:
> so the point to point addressing scheme is for saving ips sometimes
> it can be referred to incorrectly in my opinion as /31 addressing
It's totally different to /31.
> (well it is more like 2x /32 addresses) but it can be a
What you're suggesting is mor
Hello Lads and ladies
I had a number of discussions with some devs about this patch and
there seems to be a lack of confidence in what I wrote :)
and one person used the word suspicious to describe the patch :)
so the point to point addressing scheme is for saving ips sometimes
it can be referr
Hello lads, and ladies,
I have included some extra info on point to point addressing on
interfaces in OpenBSD thanks @tedu for the blog post that helpd me
learn how to do point to point addressing (non Broadcast) on Openbsd
and @theo @ingo for pointing me in the right direction on man page
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