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Xref: sserve comp.protocols.ppp:7520 comp.os.386bsd.questions:15751 Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!merlin!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcomsv!calcite!vjs From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver) Subject: Re: Help With Pppd (FreeBSD 1.1) Message-ID: <D21p4s.KM3@calcite.rhyolite.com> Organization: Rhyolite Software Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 17:12:28 GMT References: <3ek8gi$8uv@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3em1rv$b4g@agate.berkeley.edu> Lines: 18 In article <3em1rv$b4g@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > ... >>The other item involves the remote IP address of the ppp-server... >>In my case, I believe that it is a Cisco router/terminal-server. It reports >>to have an IP associated with its ethernet interface, but the >>net-administrator > >Your provider has an IP address for the router. You must ask them for this >address. It WILL be the other end of the ppp link! A common way to ask the IP provider for the address of the other end of a PPP link is to let a (reasonable) PPP implementation use the PPP protocol to ask the other peer for its IP address. That is one of the most important advantages of PPP compared to SLIP. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com