[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 3/3] ppp: Unnumbered support

Hans Dedecker dedeckeh at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 16:37:23 EDT 2015


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Steven Barth <cyrus at openwrt.org> wrote:
> I just pushed
> http://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/netifd.git;a=commit;h=5cf30b59baa03db2448570c78e7e92873555d2ec
> (not yet bumped in trunk) which allows generic dependencies to
> interfaces by using an empty address, with that you can add a host
> dependency and once fulfilled
> use network_* to get the addresses.
Thx I will try to find some time in the coming days to rework the PPP
unnumbered implementation based on this approach.

Hans
>
> Please let me know if that works for you.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steven
>
> On 10.06.2015 14:52, Steven Barth wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> UCI is read as network_get_subnets only returns info for active
>>> interfaces; e.g. if the referred interface in the unnumbered parameter
>>> is down it's not possible to install the host dependency based on the
>>> IP address for the PPP interface.
>>> Did not (yet) find a way to circumvent this issue.
>>
>> Understood, I think the sane way around here would be to add a
>> host_dependency on the interface itself (without a specific IP-address).
>> Let me see if this can be added to netifd easily.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Steven
>>
_______________________________________________
openwrt-devel mailing list
openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel



More information about the openwrt-devel mailing list