ethernet and pointopoint

From: Adam (adam@cfar.umd.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 13:39:05 EST

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hello,
        Is there reason why I can't set pointopoint for ethernet? I have
        to computers (and two 100mbps ethernet cards) connected via null-modem
        ethernet cable (with no hub in between). So since there's no way
        to have more than two hosts talking to each other for all intended
        purposes it IS a pointopoint link.

        looking at net/core/dev.c:dev_change_flags() I see
        that I can't pass IFF_POINTOPOINT to it via ioctl, and
        it will be just sillently dropped, with no error reported
        back to ifconfig.

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