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Subject: Re: slattach!!!!!!!
To: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 18:26:29 -0700 (PDT)
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> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 May 1995, Nate Williams wrote:
> 
> > > determined by a rotary.  Worse, you can be attached to any of a number
> > > of systems so you need to grab  both the IP address assigned to you and
> > > the name of the machine you attached to so you can add the route.
> 
>   The IP of the machine you connect to, isn't needed.
actually, it's often the other way around....
you can assign you ethernet IP to your slip port as well,
as the routing will use the ip address for the foreign eddress
for routing decisions (in versions I've used)
> 
> Tom  
>