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Xref: sserve comp.protocols.ppp:7499 comp.os.386bsd.questions:15702 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!rick From: rick@vox.trystero.com (Richard E. Nickle) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Help With Pppd (FreeBSD 1.1) Date: 8 Jan 1995 15:27:32 GMT Organization: The Trystero System Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3ep094$jhq@sundog.tiac.net> References: <3ek8gi$8uv@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3em1rv$b4g@agate.berkeley.edu> <D21p4s.KM3@calcite.rhyolite.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vox.trystero.com In article <D21p4s.KM3@calcite.rhyolite.com>, Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> wrote: |In article <3em1rv$b4g@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu |(Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: | |> ... |>>The other item involves the remote IP address of the ppp-server... |>>In my case, I believe that it is a Cisco router/terminal-server. It |eports >>>to have an IP associated with its ethernet interface, but the |>>net-administrator |> |>Your provider has an IP address for the router. You must ask them for this |>address. It WILL be the other end of the ppp link! | |A common way to ask the IP provider for the address of the other end of |a PPP link is to let a (reasonable) PPP implementation use the PPP |protocol to ask the other peer for its IP address. That is one of the |most important advantages of PPP compared to SLIP. FreeBSD's implementation (which is based on the ppp-2.1.2 archived on uunet) does this fine. |Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com -- -- Richard Nickle http://www.trystero.com/rick.html