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From: "Michael C. Newell" <mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov>
To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, Bill Fenner wrote:

> Right.  In fact, since multicast routing can't handle the shared addresses,
> I'm not sure what the point of doing it is.  In any case, apply this patch
> to netinet/in_var.h; it restores the original behavior after doing the
> special pointtopoint behavior.

I think the point was so that in places where you connect one Ethernet 
network to an ISP you wouldn't have to use a whole (sub)-net for the PPP 
link.  I *thought* one of the design goals of PPP was to avoid having to 
assign addresses to the link endpoints.  Guess not???

Anyway thanks for the patch; I'll try it in the next day or so... :-)!!

Mike

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