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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!warwick!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!gi101 From: gi101@cus.cam.ac.uk (G. Ioannou) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: SLIP with variable IP address Date: 17 Feb 1996 14:07:50 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4g4nfm$k8q@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: gi101@cam.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk Is it possible to set up a FreeBSD 2.1 machine as a SLIP client that uses a different IP address each time it dials the provider? The allocated IP address is reported by the remote host in plain english just before the SLIP service begins. TIA. -G.