In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sheldon Hearn writes:
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>On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:33:07 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
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>> Does this have anything to do with your recent change to if_tun.c?
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>Nope. I've reverted rev 1.75 of if_tun.c and the behaviour persists.
>Someone locally insists that the ifconfig line
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> ifconfig tun0 inet 10.0.0.1
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>should work. Any ideas?
I think you are seing the "interesting" side effect of the BSD
concept of "POINT2POINT" lines.
I think we should loose that concept in favour of interfaces using
a netmask of 255.255.255.255 and let programs like ppp install
a hostroute to the other end when it is reachable.
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