[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) schreibt:
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IMHO EPPPD should be able to retrieve the [DNS] numbers via PPP
handshake. (PAP or CHAP)
Hello Richard,
>From my own experience and from what I have read, I don't believe
that this is true. As far as I know, the following explanation from
the Linux PPP-HOWTO also applies to (E)PPPD.
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8. Getting the Information you need about the PPP server
Before you can establish a PPP connection with a server, you need
to obtain the following information (from the sysadmin/user support
people of the PPP server):-
[snip]
* What are the IP numbers of the ISPs Domain Name Servers?
There should be at least two although only one is needed.
There could be a problem here. The MS Windows 95 PPP setup allows
the DNS address to be passed to the client as part of its
connection process. So your ISP (or corporate help desk) may well
tell you you don't need the IP address of the DNS server(s).
For Linux, you DO need the address of at least one DNS. The linux
implementation of PPP does not allow the setting of the DNS IP
number dynamically at connection time - and quite possibly will
never do so.
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For Linux, I always have DNS number(s) in /etc/resolv.conf. In
DOS, I put them in wattcp.cfg or use the namsrv option for EPPPD
with fake BOOTP.
Howard Eisenberger
Ottawa, Canada
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