On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:35:20 -0500,
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> When they tell you that their DNS numbers aren't available, or that you
> don't need to know their DNS numbers, that simply means that the ISP
> supports "dynamic DNS adressing". If you can use LSPPP with your modem,
> then you should be able to connect with Arachne to any ISP supporting dynamic
> DNS addressing. By using LSPPP I can connect to my ISP with Arachne without
> even indicating the DNS numbers anywhere in any of my config files. LSPPP
> supports dynamic DNS addressing. EPPPD does not.
Exactly. LSPPP gets the DNS numbers as part of the PPP negotiation
and writes them to IP-UP.BAT. EPPPD does not do this.
This is not the same as BOOTP. When you use BOOTP with EPPPD (and
LSPPP?), BOOTP requests are intercepted by the packet driver and
don't go to the server. This is why it is called fake or simulated
BOOTP. Thus, in order to use BOOTP with EPPPD for DNS, you must put
the DNS numbers in pppdrc.cfg (or similar) before loading EPPPD.
In order to use real or server-side BOOTP, you have to use PPPD.
Howard E.
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