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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is Multi-Link PPP available?
Date: 21 Oct 1995 11:12:47 +0100
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@bu.edu> wrote:

>Wait, what is that
>	pseudo ppp	2
>			~
>for? Never had two modems, but what if I just start two pppd with different
>settings? I thought It would give me two network interfaces...

Of course, but you cannot route the traffic intented for just a single
remote peer over two different IP interfaces.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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