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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!hookup!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 'iijppp -auto' and Dynamic IP Address Allocation Date: 10 Jun 1996 18:49:15 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4phqnb$4n0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31BBC0E9.41C67EA6@dial.pipex.com> <31BC273E.73CC@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: > The basic procedure is to allocate an IP address of 0.0.0.0/0, and let > the negotiations take place normally. This technique is included in the > sample files. You cannot autodial on this however. This is quite clear if you think about how autodialing works -- it must detect an outgoing packet destined for a particular address before, in order to know that it has to dial just for this packet now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)