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From: jscholvi@ernie.eecs.uic.edu (John Scholvin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD, SLIP, and dynamic IP assignment
Date: 20 Sep 1994 21:28:28 -0500
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
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Here's hoping someone has been through this:
I've got FreeBSD 1.1.5 running happily on my Gateway 4dx2-66 at home,
and I'd like to be able to dial into the SLIP server at school. The
problem is that the only SLIP service at school is the kind that
dynamically assigns IP addresses to the machines that call in. I've
read the SLIP FAQ by Satoshi Asami, and his words are that I "probably
need to do something much fancier" than what he describes in his
document (static IP assignment). I have some knowledge of Unix and
networking, but coming up with something "fancy" on my own would
probably take me a *long* time if I could do it at all.
Has someone else figured this out? It seems to me that a (probably moby)
hack of slattach would be in order. Has someone done it? Am I on the right
track? If I were to hack it myself, would this be something of use to
others?
Any responses would be tremendously appreciated.
--
John Scholvin | "Help--I've fallen into a depression in
jscholvi@eecs.uic.edu | the space-time continuum and I can't get
| up!" -- K. Gleason