From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert hubert Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 21:47:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] pointopoint flag Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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 -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Services Trilab The Technology People 'SYN! .. SYN|ACK! .. ACK!' - the mating call of the internet _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/