First, let me make a small technical correction to what you said: IP
addresses do NOT get assigned to machines. They get assigned to interfaces.
Since there is usually one interface eper machine, the imprecise usage is
widespread, but yours is an example of where the distinction needs to be made.
The 127.0.0.1 address is the standard "loopback" interface address, used by
(every) machine to refer to itself as localhost. How you assign a different
address to your dial-in interface depends on how you are managing the
dial-in. If you're doing this in the most common way -- running a modem to
answer a telephone call, and mangaing the Linux piece with an /etc/inittab
entry that calls mgetty ... then you add the addresses for both ends to the
appropriate pppd options file.
"man pppd" can give you the general idea of what to add, but since there
are several different ways to handle the authentication and pppd startup, I
can't be more specific at this point. If you provide details about what you
are doing now, I (or someone else on the list) can probably give you more
specific advice about how to add the IP addresses for the connection.
At 06:09 PM 8/31/99 +0530, WebMaster: prayagonline.com wrote [in part]:
>... i want to setup my linux machine such that people can dial in on my
>telephone and after user-verification establish a ppp connection. for that,
>i need to assign an ip address to my machine, say 192.168.5.1
>no please tell me as to how can i do that... the default address is
>127.0.0.1 but this one is not accepted by the remote (win 95) machine.
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