Peter Memishian writes: > As Jim said, POINTOPOINT is really a property of the medium. You can't > magically make an Ethernet interface POINTOPOINT by specifying multiple > addresses, you just end up making a big mess. It seems to me that the > syntax covered above is intended to allow POINTOPOINT interfaces to be > configured, not to make an interface POINTOPOINT.
Exactly. Unfortunately, I don't think we can rip out this misbegotten swill too easily, as the open source PPP code depends on it. It'll require some careful testing. (Oh, how I wish the other vendors hadn't blocked our attempt to add DL_PPP to DLPIv2 years ago!) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
