PPP host is a router?

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From: Wong Chee Heng
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 08:12

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I have a curious question to ask, may be a bit dumb. When a PC dial into a
unix host using telnet over PPP, the PC appear as a IP node right? What 
about the UNIX host? It becomes a IP router right? If that is the case
then each modem connected to the UNIX host will be having a different 
network interface which need a different subnet number! is it true? Or
all the modems/dial-in lines can be considered within one network separated
(different from the subnet number the UNIX host is in) and share one common 
IP subnet number, or in fact all the dial-in PC can share the same subnet number
of the UNIX host and become part of the same network the UNIX host is in?

Whichever case is it, how does it affect the IP routing table? Is static route
required, or RIP is used?

Thanks in advance.

--
Wong Chee Heng
Systems Programmer

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