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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP and "Normal" IP?? How?
Date: 27 Jul 1996 22:35:27 GMT
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stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) wrote:

> I have a Laptop which is connected to a LAN with an PCMCIA card.
> So far no problems, now I would like to enable PPP, so that
> I can dial-in to the LAN with the modem for the times I am away
> from the office.
> 
> I have 2 different IP Adresses for PPP and LAN (on different sub-nets),
> the machine name should be the same.

You should perhaps better use PPP with the proxy ARP (mis-)feature.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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