From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261488AbTDOOjR (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:39:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261584AbTDOOjR (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:39:17 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:14535 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261488AbTDOOjQ (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:39:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3E9C1C4C.2030406@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:50:52 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: How to configure an ethernet dev as PtP ? References: <20030415102109.4802ddd0.skraw@ithnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > 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 How about: /sbin/ip ad ad 192.168.1.1 peer 192.168.5.1 dev eth0 this gives: # /sbin/ip ad 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host lo 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100 link/ether 00:06:5b:a2:b3:8a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.1 peer 192.168.5.1/32 scope global eth0 Does that do what you want? Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com