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Date:      Sat, 14 Nov 1998 20:20:15 +0100
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To:        Leif Neland <root@swimsuit.internet.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: two routers back to back: Do they need real ip-adresses?
Message-ID:  <19981114202015.A15584@skriver.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811141652270.283-100000@gina.swimsuit.internet.dk>; from Leif Neland on Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 04:54:30PM %2B0100
References:  <19981113090526.A10967@skriver.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811141652270.283-100000@gina.swimsuit.internet.dk>

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> > You can't use unnumbered on broadcast media aka ethernet, so you need to
> > assign addresses to the interfaces, 
> 
> Not even on a full duplex 10BT cable? Receiver A will only get data from
> Transmitter B and vice versa.

It's not the actual number of stations on the media, it the type of
media and unnumbered in only supported on point-to-point interfaces,
ethernet is a broadcast media ...

/Jesper

-- 
Jesper Skriver (JS4261-RIPE), Network manager      
Tele Danmark DataNet, IP section (AS3292)

One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them,
One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.

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