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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dial ondemand user ppp with dynamic/unknown ip addr Date: 27 Aug 1996 16:24:43 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4vv3vr$k5@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4vgj8p$lb@ceil.fv.net> <87ivabfyra.fsf@robigo.visi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] John Boggs (jdb@robigo.visi.com) wrote: : Here's my entry for my service provider: : vector: : # set phone 288-0888 : set phone 332-9001 : set login "ername: XXXXX ssword: XXXXXXXXXXXX" : set ifaddr 206.11.194.29 206.11.195.1/0 : add 0 0 206.11.195.1 : My address is static, so I don't have to mess with that, but the : example files show how to make your local address dynamic. To be able : to use a dynamically assigned address on the other end, I put the /0 : at the end to tell ppp that the entire address could be wrong, then I : add my guess at the other end's address, which gets rewritten upon : linkup. You'd better change that last line to "add 0 0 HISADDR" - or make sure that the line in ppp.linkup says that :) -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....