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- From: ccewch@nuscc.nus.sg (Wong Chee Heng)
- Subject: PPP host is a router?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.081216.22430@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:12:16 GMT
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- I have a curious question to ask, may be a bit dumb. When a PC dial into a
- unix host using telnet over PPP, the PC appear as a IP node right? What
- about the UNIX host? It becomes a IP router right? If that is the case
- then each modem connected to the UNIX host will be having a different
- network interface which need a different subnet number! is it true? Or
- all the modems/dial-in lines can be considered within one network separated
- (different from the subnet number the UNIX host is in) and share one common
- IP subnet number, or in fact all the dial-in PC can share the same subnet number
- of the UNIX host and become part of the same network the UNIX host is in?
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- Whichever case is it, how does it affect the IP routing table? Is static route
- required, or RIP is used?
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- Thanks in advance.
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- Wong Chee Heng
- Systems Programmer
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