[1794] in linux-net channel archive

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: how to make pppd obtain its own ip ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin)
Fri Feb 2 09:11:16 1996

From: "Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: zarifco@ritsec1.com.eg (George Fathy)
Date: 	Thu, 1 Feb 1996 07:32:44 -0600 (CST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <310F4AF4.57E9@ritsec1.com.eg> from "George Fathy" at Jan 31, 96 12:56:52 pm
Reply-To: ecarp@netcom.com

>    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 ?

Hint:  try "ifconfig".  RTFM.
--
Ed Carp, N7EKG    			Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com
					214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager
					800/558-3408 SkyPager
Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key		an88744@anon.penet.fi

"Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families,
through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a
waiting soul.  Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and
asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'"

                    -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes


home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post