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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:55:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mark Clayton <mark@brown-pelican.com>
Subject: unnumbered interfaces?
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I'm trying to understand unnumbered interfaces.  From 
searching the web, they seem to be point-to-point links 
that do not have IP numbers (hence the name).  This is
what alludes:

 1) How do you set a pair on linux boxes to do this? ppp? 
 2) How would a program send data across the link?  Via
sockets?  Or thru /dev/something0?
 3) Does it make sense that to use ethernet?  Not to me
but sometimes I'm wrong :)

I'm sure I'm missing the obvious.  I usually do.  Can
anyone shed some light on this topic?

Thanks,
Mark
--
Mark & Kathy Clayton
S/V Brown Pelican
http://www.brown-pelican.com/  


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