Re: Unnumbered IP interfaces

From: Carlos Morgado (chbm@chbm.nu)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 15:31:24 EST

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On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:40:32AM -0700, Ivan Passos wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Quick question: is it possible to have unnumbered IP interfaces in Linux??
>
> An unnumbered IP interface uses another if's IP in case it needs one (e.g.
> a unnumbered PPP if may use the Ethernet IP).
>

What are you trying to do ? afaik unnumbered ifs are mostly useless except
for bundling and bgp load share tricks. You probably want to look at the
multilink ppp and isdn master/slave stuff.

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