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To: fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com (Francis Yeung)
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Subject: Re: PPP Desperate for help! 
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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 21:48:16 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 	Will you have  the magic number problem if you
> connect 2 FreeBSD machines directly via PPP ? (both
> machines are in LCP active)
> 
> 	Francis

Nope - check out GenerateMagic in lcp.c.  It's not exactly
random, but you'd be pretty lucky to have problems.
-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....