Also sprach Mark Thornton
An example client is Win98. When we check the assigned address and netmask with winipcfg it shows the netmask to be 255.0.0.0 everytime. I have tried assigning from the pool, and a static ip and both give the same result. I have noticed the same behaviour on Netgear routers that claim to support RipV2 which would imply classless routing support. I have looked at the ppp negotiation and don't see where the netmask is negotiated with a client device, ever. Am I missing something?
Ah...client side of the PPP negotiation... There is no mechanism in PPP to negotiate netmask, so the client side has to sorta guess. Here's the issue though...since you're dealing with "point to point" protocol...there's only two systems on it, there's really no reason to use any netmask other than /32 (other than brain-dead software that doesn't understand how to use host routes on a link). I have no clue how to configure windows to handle this without major brain-damage, but rest assured, its really not your TC config that's causing it. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.