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Re: how to make pppd obtain its own ip ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woods)
Fri Feb 2 05:41:56 1996
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 08:15:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Woods <cjwoods@paladin.com>
To: George Fathy <zarifco@ritsec1.com.eg>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <310F4AF4.57E9@ritsec1.com.eg>
On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, George Fathy wrote:
> Hi
>
> My ISP gives each number a different ip address each time I login and
> when I type ppp (in the ISP prompt) it doesn't display the ip address,
> so how can make linux obtain the ip address ?
Address negotiation is part of PPP. In other words, as long as you have
the `defaultroute' argument in your ppp-options (or are calling it from
the command line), you shouldn't have to worry about what your IP address
is. If you want to see what your address is on that interface, `ifconfig'
after the connection is up.
Chris Woods Systems Administrator
cjwoods@paladin.com Paladin Computing Solutions
617-273-4226 http://www.paladin.com
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