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From: BILLW@MATHOM.CISCO.COM (William Chops Westfield)
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Subject: Re: Dial-Up Slip??
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Date: 5 Dec 90 00:19:45 GMT
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    No default gateway negotiation. But picking a default gateway is easy
    when your only link to the world is a point-to-point serial line to a
    router. However, if it's not really a router but a box that's doing
    proxy arp to make it look like you're really on the local ethernet
    when you're not, PPP does not help you figure out what router to use.


Actually, in the latter case, it is the job of the "prpxy-arp box" to
figure out which router to use.  The SLIP (or PPP) host should still just
send the packets down its serial line.

BillW
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