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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dynamic SLIP
Date: 13 Jun 1995 10:58:51 +0200
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Keywords: SLIP Dynamic BSD
One Vision <reeber@pilot.njin.net> wrote:
>
> I'm having a terrible time attempting to configure dynamic SLIP on
>my FreeBSD box in order to connect to my service provider. The FAQ file
>included with 2.0.5 is outdated and does not contain info about dynamic SLIP.
The FAQ file is not outdated. ,,Dynamic'' slip is non-standard, and
FreeBSD doesn't support it out of the box. You can however setup some
sort of script that establishes the connection and tries to get the
information of the IP address in order to pass it to the later steps.
(I have no idea on how the address is passed however. SLIP itself
does not contain any options to negotiate addresses in the protocol,
so i assume it's being passed as plain text before the SLIP protocol
is initialized.)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)