Re: [LARTC] pointopoint flag

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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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