On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:49:45 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Eisenberger) wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:32:30 -0500, > "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Wouldn't this be a possible use of "the BOOTP" approach if it is dynamic >> > assignment? And if not dynamic, then easiest way to find out IP & Name >> > servers would be using either Telnet or FTP from the add-on package? >> Dynamic DNS addressing and dynamic IP assignment are not the same. >> They are separate processes. The latter process follows the former. > Also, using BOOTP in arachne.cfg, wattcp.cfg, config.tel, etc. with > epppd or lsppp, refers to how the application gets the values from > the packet driver, not how the packet driver gets the values from > the ppp server. > The packet driver gets the values from the server (and puts them in > ip-up.bat), before the application is run and any BOOTP requests are > sent. > Lsppp can get DNS numbers from the server, but epppd cannot, so that > they must be known in advance in order to pass them to epppd as > arguments (in pppdrc.cfg). This is correct. Your explanation is much more detailed than mine. Sam Heywood -- See our Big Gizmotimetemp at -- http://banners.wunderground.com/banner/gizmotimetempbig/US/VA/Mt_Jackson.gif
