It doesn't matter. It could even be a completely different one.
>And how would the routing tables w.r.t. to the end-user be setup ?
The reported_ip is only seen by the client PPP peer. Instead of the
PM's IP address, that is what they see as the other end.
>would users dialling into PM3 be given the PM1 as the reported IP ?
>Would
>the IP packets first go from PM3 to PM1 and then out the subnet ?
No, the ethernet doesn't know, nor care, that reported_ip is being used.
Nothing changes.
-MZ
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