Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 02 Apr 1997 21:49:22 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com (Francis Yeung), brian@awfulhak.org, dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PPP Desperate for help! 
Message-ID:  <199704022049.VAA14200@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Apr 1997 11:34:17 CDT." <3.0.32.19970402113410.00b716e0@etinc.com> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 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....





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199704022049.VAA14200>