From: Chuck Gelm (zwzijwh.yjwjxmssan@relay.tunkki.fi)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 23:43:20 EEST
Dear Sirs:
The eth1 device associated with my pppoe modem
had no IP address, yet is is displayed with
root@firewall:/# ifconfig
command. Somehow my smtp, pop, web browser,
ftp, ... all seem to find it.
:-|
Chuck nc8q
Tomi Manninen OH2BNS wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Craig Small wrote:
>
> > If you're looking for something later, you may want to solve the
> > ancient "why does an AX.25 interface need an IP address" question.
> > The answer used to be "because it does", I'm not sure if that is still
> > the case, I've got ports sitting on a Linux computer over *there*
> > (points to rowlf) that don't have IP addresses or have 0.0.0.0
>
> I think it's still the case. If an interface doesn't have an IP address,
> it won't show up in the "list of known interfaces" from the kernel
> (SIOCGIFCONF I think). So the utils/apps will never find it...
>
> I did some digging a couple of years ago and also did a patch (with code
> mostly stolen from Matt's/Jens' new-ax.25). See:
>
> http://hes.iki.fi/archive/dev-hams/2000/0055.html
>
> I never got an answer.
>
> Oh, by the way. Has anyone done anything with the NEW-AX.25 patch lately?
> I think it has some potential but unfortunately seems it's now completely
> unmaintained.
>
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