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From: jdb@robigo.visi.com (John Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dial ondemand user ppp with dynamic/unknown ip addr
Date: 27 Aug 1996 17:57:30 -0500
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In article <4vv3vr$k5@anorak.coverform.lan> brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes:
   John Boggs (jdb@robigo.visi.com) wrote:
   : Here's my entry for my service provider:

   : vector:
   : # set phone 288-0888
   :  set phone 332-9001
   :  set login "ername: XXXXX ssword: XXXXXXXXXXXX"
   :  set ifaddr 206.11.194.29 206.11.195.1/0
   :  add 0 0 206.11.195.1

   : My address is static, so I don't have to mess with that, but the
   : example files show how to make your local address dynamic.  To be able
   : to use a dynamically assigned address on the other end, I put the /0
   : at the end to tell ppp that the entire address could be wrong, then I
   : add my guess at the other end's address, which gets rewritten upon
   : linkup.

   You'd better change that last line to "add 0 0 HISADDR" - or make sure
   that the line in ppp.linkup says that :)

That one is in ppp.linkup.  It caused me trouble in ppp.conf.  In fact
my entire ppp.linkup is:

     MYADDR:
      delete ALL
      add 0 0 HISADDR

It works just fine!

-- 

John D. Boggs            \ The great thing about human language is
jdb@robigo.visi.com       \   that it prevents us from sticking to
                           \    the matter at hand.  -Lewis Thomas