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Date:      Tue, 4 Jun 2002 22:56:29 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Cc:        larse@ISI.EDU, archie@dellroad.org, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netgraph documentation?
Message-ID:  <20020604225629.3e6abd00.brian@Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: <200206041713.g54HDHf51449@arch20m.dellroad.org>
References:  <3CFB88C6.4070407@isi.edu> <200206041713.g54HDHf51449@arch20m.dellroad.org>

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On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 10:13:17 -0700 (PDT), Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> wrote:
[.....]
> I don't think you can have a point-to-point interface who's
> remote IP address is also local to your box. In other words,
> this may not work on the same machine but it might work if
> you use two different machines... can you try that?
> 
> -Archie

It's ok to do this.  I run ppp back-to-back with itself using

  set device "!ppp -direct in"

for testing.  In fact, there are examples in ppp.conf.sample :)

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