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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:14:16 -0500
From:      Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com>
To:        "'jherman@dichotomia.fr'" <jherman@dichotomia.fr>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "'nathan@vidican.com'" <nathan@vidican.com>
Subject:   Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?
Message-ID:  <12554_1287080057_4CB74879_12554_1323_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499A4E6399D@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com>

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