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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!cdc2.cdc.net!news.texas.net!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 'iijppp -auto' and Dynamic IP Address Allocation Date: 10 Jun 1996 18:41:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4phq9f$4n0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31BBC0E9.41C67EA6@dial.pipex.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E "Pierre Y. Dampure" <pdampure@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > How can one set up iijppp to get dial on demand when one's ISP > allocates from either a class B or class C network ? seems Pipex > allocates its dialup IP clients either in net 128.43 or in net > 193.130.250, which makes it rather difficult for iijppp to deal with ! It's impossible. Demand-dialing requires a fixed IP address to be assigned for the remote end. If you think about how routing works, you will know why it must be this way. (You're running into a chicken-and-egg problem otherwise.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)