On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:04:51 +0700, Eko Priono wrote:
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Even for non-members ? Well, I think that you will forward anything
which may be interesting for members of this list, like new Arachne
releases, and so on...
>> 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).
> Hmm... Now that's explains <g>. As usual you're more open about
> "under-the-hood" stuff like this. Thanks, Michael :)
Well... which stuf exactly I am not open enough about ? ;-)
>> 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.
> AFAIK DOSPPPD supports BOOTP in two different ways (CMIIW):
> 1) PPPD.EXE doesn't emulate BOOTP. It passes BOOTP requests directly
> to your ISP's BOOTP server. If the BOOTP server currently broadcast
> and properly configured, netinfo will be transmitted back to the apps;
> otherwise BOOTP attempts will be failed.
Yes - this is less likely to work
> 2) EPPPD.EXE (which included in Arachne package) does emulate BOOTP.
> It *captures* all BOOTP requests from the apps, and *emulate* the
> reply using netinfo parameters, which:
> a) gathered during PPP negotiation, and
This is what I am not sure about! If it works, it is great, and I can
add option to read nameserver from PPP.LOG as well as IP address!
> b) specified in PPPDRC.CFG (has higher precedence).
> That's why BOOTP never failed with EPPPD.EXE.
> So, if you specify DNS IP in PPPDRC.CFG, then you should be able to
> use the emulated BOOTP correctly. IIRC you already done this for
> the external Telnet? Then why not Arachne? ;-)
Well... I felt like the PPP.LOG method is universal, because only PPPD
creates IP-UP.BAT, while other older PPP drivers output IP address info
to standard output, or for SLIP drivers, you have to capture the
terminal program output and grab IP address from it... you are right
that it is maybne time to move to BOOTP with default Arachen setup. You
can always do this coniguration on your own (via External Dialer setup
page, for example).
>> 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 !!! ;-)
> Great!!! Need we say more? ;-)
It's too soon to celebrate - I don't know how many changes to WATTCP
were done since the release I am using. But hopefuly the developers will
help me getting rid of those hundereds of compile-time warnings,etc.
--
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