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- From: dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
- Subject: Re: PPP between different networks? (i.e., 183... & 142...)
- Message-ID: <1766@eram.esi.COM.AU>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 05:18:29 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.050242.16958@hawkmoon.mn.org> <BOB.92Nov10094722@volitans.MorningStar.Com> <rob.721951004@hp11>
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- In article <rob.721951004@hp11>,
- rob@hp11 (Rob Freyder) writes:
-
- | You mean if I have multiple PPP interfaces configured on a single machine
- | they can all have the same IP address ?! Doesnt it get confused ?
-
- Curiously enough, it works - I've done it. As is pointed out in a README
- in one of the implementations, when IP detects a Point-to-Point link
- (marked as POINTOPOINT) it ignores the local address, and just looks at
- the destination address. Very useful, and no need to waste IP addresses.
-
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