On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 23:42:53 +0700, Eko Priono wrote:
> On 18 Jun 99, at 7:12, David Colston wrote:
>> First of all, Net-Tamer does not do BOOTP. It does Dynamic IP addressing
>> and Dynamic DNS Server Assignment. These are the protocols used by most
>> ISP's at the moment. If a service starts using other protocols on a regular
>> basis, then I will configure Net-Tamer to handle whatever is required.
> Now I'm confused. How could you pass DNS server info without BOOTP or
> DHCP? If DNS assignment can be done during PPP negotiation, then surely
> something is missing in the current DOSPPPD+WATTCP implementations.
> It's good to hear that Nettamer will stay up-to-date, though. Okay, poll time I
> guess... How many of us has DHCP-only ISP account ? ;-)
Eko, you can forward this to survPV list if you wish:
1) DNS assignment can be done during PPP negotiation - the problem is
on the side of PPP driver (DOSPPPD is port of Linux "pppd", which has
- or used to have ? - the same problem). If it knows DNS, it could pass
it using BOOTP protocol! And yes, I would change Arachne to use
use BOOTP instead of PPP.LOG as default setting, if EPPPD.EXE suppors
this.
2) There will be DHCP support in new release of Wattcp, and I hope I
will manage to use it in Arachne (I even contributed to this new release
of Wattcp, although only ver little ! I am becoming TCP/IP guru !!! ;-)
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