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From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: startslip help?
Date: 1 Oct 1995 05:26:47 +0100
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In article <44csjq$12q@jraynard.demon.co.uk>,
James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>(The netmask may not be correct, but I believe SLIP ignores it anyway).

Slip may not use the netmask, but the routing code in the kernel will...
This probably won't affect much unless you have more than one network
interface tho.

Gary
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