On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Neil J. McRae wrote:

> I can't see how you can do demand dialing without know the IP addresses,
> otherwise everytime you do anykind of network traffic it would dial up.

The key here is that it has to know an address, but it doesn't have
to know the *correct* address. So long as it uses a default route
to shovel packets over the serial link, it doesn't matter if it's
got the correct address for the remote end or not.

cjs

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