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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!library.ucla.edu!ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu!beauty!loren From: loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: DYNAMIC SLIP CONNECTION? Date: 11 Nov 1994 21:57:36 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Lines: 43 Message-ID: <3a0pcg$j8v@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> References: <38u87j$cs6@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> <g87Xuc1w165w@oasys.pc.my> <3a0dii$rim@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: beauty.mcl.ucsb.edu Here's a followup to my own original post: once I log in with Kermit, I suspend the session and type: ifconfig sl0 inet mydynamicip gatewayip netmask 255.255.255.0 metric 1 route add default gatewayip slattach -c -h -s 19200 /dev/cua00 Works like a charm! I also had to add my nameserver to the hosts file(? I think it was the hosts file). Well, thanx again for all the posts about it. Somehow, after hacking away, I got it to work. In <3a0dii$rim@crl.crl.com> ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant) writes: >In article <g87Xuc1w165w@oasys.pc.my>, >Othman bin Hj. Ahmad <othman@oasys.pc.my> wrote: >>loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss) writes: >> >>> How do you do it? Everything that is posted is about static connection >>> (meaning you each have an IP number alkready).. I get it when I call up.. >> >>You need a special program to do it dynamically. Linux has it. CAlled >>dpp(???). Sorry can't remember. >> >> >>Disclaimer: I only speak for myself. >> >>SABAH is Heaven. >>Perpetual Clear Blue Sky, Sea and Mountains near modern civilisations, >>but how long will this last? >The linux program name is "DIP" you can ftp from sunsite.unc.edu in >director tree /pub/Linux -- || Loren Daniel Koss || Three tomatos are walking down the steet: Papa || || Computer Science || tomato, mama tomato, and baby tomato. Baby || || Santa Barbara || tomato was lagging so papa tomato walked back || || ------------------ || stomped on him and said "KETCHUP!" - PULP FICTION ||