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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP Script for Compuserve Date: 19 Jan 1997 22:29:59 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5bu797$fa5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <E493Lx.6wv@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34266 stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) wrote: > I know its evil (:-)), but I need a ppp script for accessing Compuserve. > They use dynamic IPs. Dunno about CI$, but what's the problem with the dynamic IP address? IIJPPP should handle this fine. The probably simplest method is to specify your own address as `0.0.0.0' in the ifaddr statement. You can also leave the remote IP address underspecified, making it subject to negotiation. For example, if you specify: ifaddr 0 192.168.0.0/16 this means that your own address is entirely negotiable, while the remote address is negotiable with any value of 192.168.x.y. It's a little more tricky to perform auto-dialing then. Naturally, auto-dialing requires a remote address to send the packets to, so that the PPP process can be triggered to dial. In this case, specify an imaginary address for it, and set the initial default route to that address. Provide a ppp.linkup script that deletes the default route after the link is up, and that re-adds the default route to HISADDR (this is a magic string). -- 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. ;-)