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From: hatch@cais2.cais.com (William E. Hatch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: dynamic remote IP address ?
Date: 20 Jul 1996 22:29:21 GMT
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I am setting bsdi 2.1 up for a dialup ppp connection to an internet
Provider, cais.com.  Presently everything works through the remote login.
At that point ppp times out, being unable to open a session.  
From my discussions with cais support, this is probably because my
ppp (in ppp.sys) is expecting a fixed remote IP address.  In fact, the
remote IP address is variable, depending on which machine answers the
phone.  How do I handle this on my end using the stock bsdi 2.1 ppp ?