"Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>EPPPD, used with CHAT, can be used to write WATTCP.CFG. EPPPD does
>not depend on WATTCP.CFG but does depend on PPPDRC.CFG or other file
>used in place of PPPDRC.CFG.
Right. (E)PPPD puts the 4 values in IP_UP.BAT which can then be
used to write them to WATTCP.CFG or any other file, by way of
environment variables.
>Netdial, as it came with DOSLYNX, creates a file PATH.CFG; actually
>a .BAT file rather than Netdial creates PATH.CFG. It would be possible
>then to have a WATTCP.CFG with an include line pointing to this
>PATH.CFG.
Yes, this is the method described in the dospppd documentation
(samples.txt). But whether you write to an include file or write
directly to WATTCP.CFG, it is done by running IP_UP.BAT. I use
this method with KA9Q, with "source" instead of "include=" in
autoexec.net|nos. I'm not sure if CONFIG.TEL can use an include
file.
>Now what is real or fake BOOTP, and how does it work, or does
>it work? I think I know what it's supposed to do.
Real BOOTP is run on the server. To see if your server is using
it, use PPPD and tcpinfo. In most cases, it will fail. On the
other hand, EPPPD uses "fake" or simulated BOOTP, so EPPPD
intercepts BOOTP requests and supplies the values when you set
myip=bootp in WATTCP.CFG or my_ip=bootp in CONFIG.TEL. IP_UP.BAT
is not used at all. Putting namsrv in PPPDRC.CFG also means that
EPPPD will supply the DNS numbers.
>UKA_PPP has its own weird WATTCP.CFG format and seems not to
>recognize the include statement. Apparently UKA_PPP decides it's
>online when it sees an IP-UP.BAT file, and that works even if
>IP-UP.BAT has the wrong stuff, as long as WATTCP.CFG in the UKA_PPP
>directory is correct. WATTCP.CFG environment variable must either
>be undefined or point to UKA_PPP version.
>Apparently Arachne looks at WATTCP.CFG environment variable to
>get the directory where the appropriate WATTCP.CFG file is located.
For these reasons, I run the UKA_PPP x_*.exe programs from my
main WATTCP.CFG directory and set the WATTCP.CFG environment
variable to that directory for Arachne (and Lynx386).
Howard Eisenberger
Ottawa, Canada
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