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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov!usenet From: wkulecz@life.jsc.nasa.gov (Walter B Kulecz PhD) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Dynamic IP's with SLIP Date: 18 Sep 1995 02:17:46 GMT Organization: My opinions, not NASA's or KRUG's Lines: 16 Message-ID: <43iksa$koe@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov> References: <43hkrm$1an5@saturn.caps.maine.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gomer.jsc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <43hkrm$1an5@saturn.caps.maine.edu>, bersbach@maine.maine.eduu says... > >I'd like to be able to assign IP addresses by modem port rather than by >username so as to conserve IP addresses. Does anyone know how to >do this? The Trumpet Winsock (at least 2.x) has an "address" operator that will parse out an IP address if you simply echo back the assigned IP as part of your slip login. But this is a kludge, use ppp which was designed to negotiate such a thing. --wally. PS: Trumpet Winsock supports ppp in versions 2.x