From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Gelm Subject: Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:43:20 -0400 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D45A8E8.7FF854CE@gelm.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: tpm@prkele.tky.hut.fi Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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. > > -- > Tomi Manninen Internet: oh2bns@sral.fi > OH2BNS AX.25: oh2bns@oh2rbi.fin.eu > KP20ME04 Amprnet: oh2bns@oh2rbi.ampr.org > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html