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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 18:49:15 GMT
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Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote:

> The basic procedure is to allocate an IP address of 0.0.0.0/0, and let 
> the negotiations take place normally. This technique is included in the 
> sample files.

You cannot autodial on this however.  This is quite clear if you think
about how autodialing works -- it must detect an outgoing packet
destined for a particular address before, in order to know that it has
to dial just for this packet now.

-- 
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. ;-)