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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.chattanooga.net!tarush!tom From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush) Subject: Re: SLIP with dynamic IPs X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Rush Co. Message-ID: <DBtEI1.1C2@tarush.chattanooga.net> References: <3tv2gd$cgo_001@ss21.ssnet.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 15:18:00 GMT Lines: 66 Matthew Chiglinsky (mattc@ssnet.com) wrote: : I've done a little searching but I can't seem to find any help. Could : someone either detail how or send me a file on how to configure FreeBSD : (2.0.5 or other) to run SLIP and allow for dynamic IPs? I remembered this post from a while back, and found it in the archives: ------------------------------------------------ > From: Joachim Bartz <injb@verleihnix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce > Subject: Ann: dip -dialup IP handler for bsd > Supersedes: <199505090036.CAA00872@verleihnix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> > Followup-To: poster > Date: 8 May 1995 18:09:06 -0700 > Organization: University of California, Berkeley > Lines: 30 > Sender: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu > Approved: netbsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu > Message-ID: <199505090045.CAA00930@verleihnix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> > NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > To: netbsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] > Content-Length: 996 > > > DIP is mainly a tool to establish a SLIP connection. It handles all > the necessary actions to set up the tty port and the modem, dial out > and finally build up a SLIP connection between the tty port and the > kernel. To do so, dip offers an own very simple command language (a > mostly complete description can be found in the man page). > > Dip can handle both incoming and outgoing connections using password > security for incoming connections. > > This dip version was ported from Linux to NetBSD, although it will > work on other BSDish systems as well. > > > It can be found at this site: > ftp.rz.tu-clausthal.de in /pub/unix/tuc > > Filenames: > bsddip-1.01.ReadMe > bsddip-1.01.tar.Z > > > Joachim Bartz > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Joachim Bartz A person with one watch knows what time it is; > injb@sun.rz.tu-clausthal.de a person with two watches is never sure. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I haven't tried this on BSD, but it worked fine on Linux; although this article didn't mention dynamic IP assignment, the Linux version handled it and I assume the BSD port does too. Hope this helps. -- Tom Rush tom@tarush.chattanooga.net