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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2 (or more) LAN interface on SAME subnet ?
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<<On Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:55:49 -0500 (EST), Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> said:

> Here's my netstat -ni and routing table.  Note that I haven't figured out 
> why tun0 is being picked up as a /16 network when I specify it as a /24 
> in ppp.conf and sysconfig.  If I ifconfig the netmask to be correct, 
> everything still works.

Netmasks are not meaningful for point-to-point links.  You should
specify all-ones, if anything at all.

-GAWollman

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