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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP Date: 31 Aug 1995 23:32:44 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <425gqs$j2l@reason.cdrom.com> References: <422j0k$9rk@shum.cc.huji.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: glozman@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu X-URL: news:422j0k$9rk@shum.cc.huji.ac.il 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