From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] pointopoint flag
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 21:47:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-98547054002612@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-98529443625692@msgid-missing>
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:20:00PM +0100, Guy Van Den Bergh wrote:
> the pointtopoint flag is something typical for the medium used.
> E.g. ethernet is by nature a broadcast medium and thus not pointtopoint.
> PPP, as its name says,is a point to point protocol. So this is (or
> should be) not configurable, unless you are trying some weird setups.
You CAN use Ethernet in a point-to-point configuration, by the way. Saves
some IP adresses.
Regards,
bert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-24 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-22 20:53 [LARTC] pointopoint flag mike stjohn
2001-03-22 22:20 ` Guy Van Den Bergh
2001-03-24 21:47 ` bert hubert [this message]
2001-03-25 18:07 ` Guy Van Den Bergh
2001-03-25 19:29 ` Guy Van Den Bergh
2001-03-25 19:52 ` bert hubert
2001-03-25 20:48 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-03-25 21:34 ` Guy Van Den Bergh
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