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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!visi.com!news From: jdb@robigo.visi.com (John Boggs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dial ondemand user ppp with dynamic/unknown ip addr Date: 27 Aug 1996 17:57:30 -0500 Organization: No Mildew Lines: 35 Sender: jdb@robigo.visi.com Message-ID: <87raoszb8l.fsf@robigo.visi.com> References: <4vgj8p$lb@ceil.fv.net> <87ivabfyra.fsf@robigo.visi.com> <4vv3vr$k5@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: robigo.visi.com In-reply-to: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk's message of 27 Aug 1996 16:24:43 +0100 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4vv3vr$k5@anorak.coverform.lan> brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: 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 :) That one is in ppp.linkup. It caused me trouble in ppp.conf. In fact my entire ppp.linkup is: MYADDR: delete ALL add 0 0 HISADDR It works just fine! -- John D. Boggs \ The great thing about human language is jdb@robigo.visi.com \ that it prevents us from sticking to \ the matter at hand. -Lewis Thomas