From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264398AbTDOIJb (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 04:09:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264399AbTDOIJa (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 04:09:30 -0400 Received: from mail.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.8]:19467 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264398AbTDOIJ3 (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 04:09:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:21:09 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: linux-kernel Subject: How to configure an ethernet dev as PtP ? Message-Id: <20030415102109.4802ddd0.skraw@ithnet.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello all, I tried to configure an ethernet device as a pointopoint link recently, just to find out that this does not work as one would expect via: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 pointopoint 192.168.5.1 up I tried on kernel 2.4.21-pre6 and 2.2.19 (just to name two), both the same. It comes up as: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:76:F7:E9:17 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 I do not understand why this does not work out just like another ptp-interface like isdn: isdn0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FC:FC:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.1.1 P-t-P:192.168.5.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 Is there anything I mis-understood or a good reason for not being able to make eth pointopoint? I have the feeling this question is pretty brain-dead, but anyway, maybe some kind soul can drop a few words ... -- Regards, Stephan