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At 02:20 PM 4/2/97 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Dennis,
>
>	If you put 2 freebsd machines back to back connecting via ppp,
>if both are LCP active, the probability that both magic numbers end
>up to be identical is very likely. If the magic numbers are identical,
>they won't do further LCP negotiation. There is always a probability and
>the retry won't help either.

Only if the implementation is defective.. the magic number for a
given server should be random and the likelihood of duplication
infinitesimally small.

db