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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
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In-reply-to: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk's message of 27 Aug 1996 16:24:43
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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