Subject: Re: Interface specification in route(8)
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Lucio de Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/23/1999 13:32:07 
According to Ignatios Souvatzis:
> 
> I dont know why a ppp should _ever_ have a netmask (other than
> 255.255.255.255).
> 
255.255.255.252 is the traditional value for a numbered point-to-point 
link.  Or are you saying that _this_ is a bad idea?  I think you may 
have a point if you do, but perhaps you can expand on it?

++L