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From: Jason Kuri <jay@interaccess.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Simple PPP question
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 08:26:14 -0500
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[snip]
> set ifaddr 0 aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/0 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/0
  this is wrong, sorry, the correction is:

  set ifaddr aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/0 eee.fff.ggg.hhh/0 netmask yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy

> This tells PPP to accept whatever IP the PPP server gives it.  Without a
> /0 at the end, it wants to get the IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd and won't accept
> anything else.

Jay