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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dynamic IP's Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 18:57:17 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3213D57D.32D5@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4uojpr$nbd@news.teleplex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) To: gene@teleplex.net gene johnson wrote: > > alright, got ppp to work automatically however, what happens when your > ISP assigns ip's dynamicly? what do you put in your hosts file to > identify yourself? > > reply if you can > gene@teleplex.net [ reply sent to both NG and mail ] You don't need an entry in /etc/hosts for yourself (you've got 127.0.0.1 for localhost, which works fine for internal stuff). Just check the /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup.sample file. Your ppp.linkup file should be similar; it adds the default route after the connection has been established. You should also read the Handbook entries on PPP operation. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |