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 proper attempt at a patch submission :) what Im trying to document is point to point addressing similar to serial links /PPP /PPPoE links There are a couple of advantages in these systems a) in that it there is no arp on the link b) it can save the number of addresses used by linking routers together I must say point to point addressing /ip unnumbered is widely deployed in networks in the wild and is supported on other vendors, and in order for me to integrate OpenBSD Routers / firewalls into those networks, we use the point to point addressing feature (ip un numbered) to achieve this. In a nut shell there is a feature that is useful in OpenBSD in use in the Wild, that I found difficult to get working because it was not documented (adequately) in the manual. The only way I could get it to work was internet searching and finding a Tedu blog post I think this feature is useful and functional and should be documented and I want to help with the documentation based on my experience. If you / the community agree with my intention can you point me in a direction where I can document this feature in a useful manner for the OpenBSD Users. Perhaps it needs its own manual page ? Perhaps a manual page explaining all the ways we can set an Ip address on an interface would be helpful ? Maybe hostname.if.5 is not the place for it ? Any ideas and pointers that would allow me to submit a useful doc patch would be greatly appreciated Thanks for your Time and consideration Tom Smyth P.S. I absolutely hate /31 addressing I prefer having a link with 2 x /32 ip addresses is easier for me to digest than the 2 ip addresses occupying the reserved network and Broadcast addresses in /31 addressing