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!)

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