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Subject: Re: PPP Desperate for help! 
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> At 07:19 AM 4/2/97 -0800, Francis Yeung wrote:
> >
> >
> >Greetings,
> >
> >	Will you have  the magic number problem if you
> >connect 2 FreeBSD machines directly via PPP ? (both
> >machines are in LCP active)
> >
> >	Francis
> 
> What "magic number" problem are you referring to?
> 
> db

>From rfc1663:
[.....]
   Every link in a single machine MUST have different Magic Numbers, and
   each end of every link between two peers SHOULD have Magic Numbers
   which are unique to those peers.  This protects against patch-panel
   errors in addition to looped-back links.
[.....]

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....