Re: What were the reasons of having mandatory IP address at AX.25 interfaces ?

Matti Aarnio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: .. the original reason was apparently that _ifconfig_ blew up when it saw protocols that it didn't understand on network interfaces. Possibly when there was no IP protocol on an interface. It's not only ifconfig, a lot of programs use SIOCGIFCONF to

Re: What were the reasons of having mandatory IP address at AX.25 interfaces ?

.. the original reason was apparently that _ifconfig_ blew up when it saw protocols that it didn't understand on network interfaces. Possibly when there was no IP protocol on an interface. This happened on DECNET, and apparently on others too. Thus the SIOCGIFCONF ioctl is not returning much

Re: What were the reasons of having mandatory IP address at AX.25 interfaces ?

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:38:35PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Matti Aarnio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: .. the original reason was apparently that _ifconfig_ blew up when it saw protocols that it didn't understand on network interfaces. Possibly when there was no IP protocol on an