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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP
Date: 1 Sep 1995 14:04:21 +0200
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Bob Glozman <glozman@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> wrote:

>I got the problem. I run Free and i want to run ppp from freebsd
                          ^^^^
what'sat? :)
>Now the problem is: i don't have a regular IP adres the bridge gives an adress
>to me but it is allways different,  how i should wite the script for that ?

Let PPP negotiate its address(es) -- simply don't provide one of your
own.  IP address negotiation is part of the IPCP layer which can be
handled by both PPP implementations (pppd and ppp).
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)