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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP
Date: 31 Aug 1995 23:32:44 GMT
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glozman@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu (Bob Glozman) wrote:
>I got the problem. I run Free and i want to run ppp from freebsd
>Now the problem is: i don't have a regular IP adres the bridge gives an adress
>to me but it is allways different,  how i should wite the script for that ?

Use FreeBSD 2.0.5 or later and /usr/sbin/ppp - it fully supports dynamic
address negotiation and you don't have to do anything particularly clever to
get it; it will handshake automatically by default and attempt to negotiate
both the local and remote IP addresses to use.  Piece-o-cake!

-- 
						Jordan