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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rkb55989 From: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SLIP with dynamic IP Date: 3 Sep 1994 02:34:47 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 39 Message-ID: <348nc7$foo@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <3489rf$lrd@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu frank@vcsun1.tamu.edu (Franklin S. Cheng) writes: >Does anyone ever install SLIP(or PPP) on FreeBSD with dynamic IP ? >The faq only mentions static IP assignment, not about dynamic IP, >I wonder if someone has done this work already, could I borrow >the experience and the modem scripts ? DISCLAIMER: I'm using NetBSD, so this might be not 100% the answer you're looking for, but it should be close. I'm also assuming that you want to set up a CLIENT, not a dynamic PPP server. I'm now sure how to do this for SLIP without knowing the guts of how you connect and the term server/SLIP server you go through, etc. BUT, PPP makes this extremely easy! Since PPP can negatiate the IP address for both ends of the connection, a simple pppd defaultroute <line speed> <tty used> should set up your end of the address and the remote end, AND add a default route to the remote address. With this one command you should be all set... [Almost] The other problem here is stuff like /etc/myname that does not match your real hostname and other misc garbage. I've simply ignored this stuff for now, because of the limitation on stuff I can do with my PPP service [my provider, aka the University] does not allow you to recv. mail, etc. so those issues are not big for me right now... Anyone with a clean sol'n to above problems [and how to update .rhosts and such] please follow up or email me... --rafal /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit | Rafal Boni | | 15% of the earth, which is 100% more than they | r-boni@uiuc.edu | | have now..." -Cartoon caption in New Yorker | My opinions, not UIUC's | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/