At 01:49 PM 8/21/2002 -0500, Nick Davis wrote:
>On Wednesday 21 August 2002 13:26, Mark Hennessy wrote:
>
> Framed-IP-Address := 255.255.255.254,
> Framed-IP-Netmask = 255.255.255.255,
>
>How can it work with that netmask? That seems wrong to me. That netmask
>leaves no IP addresses left for use.
PPP connections work this way. It works because that is how the
specification is designed to work. You have one end-node, and it needs
only 1 IP. It would be very wasteful to assign a /30 netmask for every
PPP connection, as you'd burn 4 ips instead of 1.
If it seems wrong to you, you need to understand more about PPP. I suggest
searching google and reading some of the RFC's ( the latter for a detailed
technical explanation ).
-Chris
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