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From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush)
Subject: Re: SLIP with dynamic IPs
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Matthew Chiglinsky (mattc@ssnet.com) wrote:
: 	I've done a little searching but I can't seem to find any help.  Could 
: someone either detail how or send me a file on how to configure FreeBSD 
: (2.0.5 or other) to run SLIP and allow for dynamic IPs?

I remembered this post from a while back, and found it in the archives:

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> From: Joachim Bartz <injb@verleihnix.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce
> Subject: Ann: dip -dialup IP handler for bsd
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> 
> DIP is mainly a tool to establish a SLIP connection.  It handles all
> the necessary actions to set up the tty port and the modem, dial out
> and finally build up a  SLIP connection between the tty port and the
> kernel.  To do so, dip offers an own very simple command language (a
> mostly complete description can be found in the man page).
> 
> Dip can handle both incoming and outgoing connections using password
> security for incoming connections.
> 
> This dip version was ported from  Linux to NetBSD,  although it will
> work on other BSDish systems as well.
> 
> 
> It can be found at this site:
>     ftp.rz.tu-clausthal.de    in    /pub/unix/tuc
> 
> Filenames:
>     bsddip-1.01.ReadMe
>     bsddip-1.01.tar.Z
> 
> 
> Joachim Bartz
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> Joachim Bartz			A person with one watch knows what time it is;
> injb@sun.rz.tu-clausthal.de	a person with two watches is never sure.
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I haven't tried this on BSD, but it worked fine on Linux; although this
article didn't mention dynamic IP assignment, the Linux version handled
it and I assume the BSD port does too.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Tom Rush
tom@tarush.chattanooga.net