Hello:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:34:14 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Howard Eisenberger) wrote:
> Exactly. LSPPP gets the DNS numbers as part of the PPP negotiation
> and writes them to IP-UP.BAT. EPPPD does not do this.
Agreed.
> This is not the same as BOOTP. When you use BOOTP with EPPPD (and
> LSPPP?),
It is possible to use LSPPP in a mode similar to EPPPD, whereby you would
specify the DNS numbers in your command line parameters for LSPPP. With
LSPPP it is not necessary to indicate the DNS numbers if the ISP supports
dynamic DNS addressing. It is always necessary to specify the DNS numbers
when using EPPPD, regardless of whether the ISP supports dynamic DNS
addressing.
> 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.
What is PPPDRC.CFG? Is it just a file containing essentially the same
data as PATH.CFG, and is it derived in a similar manner, i.e. by a batch
program extracting the data from the environmental variables set by
IP-UP.BAT, and appending the data to the config file, according to the manner
shown in the batch files recently posted by Alejandro Lieber and myself?
Of course one could easily produce a config file by any name by resorting
to the same technique, but the data would be essentially the same. My
question is this: Would a PPPDRC.CFG file have the same contents as PATH.CFG?
If this is the case then it would appear that some DOS internet apps are
programmed to look for a config file named PPDRC.CFG while others are told to
to look for PATH.CFG. Same config files, but just different names so as to
accomodate different programs?
> In order to use real or server-side BOOTP, you have to use PPPD.
Is PPPD the same as EPPPD? There have been some posts recently which speak
of the importance of renaming these packet driver programs so as to
accomodate different programs. I can understand the need for changing the
names of the config files in order to accomodate different programs, but I
never did understand why it was necessary in some cases to change the names
of the packet driver programs. Maybe this subject matter has somehow gone
completely over my head.
Sam Heywood
