More from SURVPC list: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:04:51 +0700 From: Eko Priono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: DOS browser with DHCP support? On 20 Jun 99, at 12:04, Michael Polak wrote: > Eko, you can forward this to survPV list if you wish: Done. The name is SurvPC, BTW -- short for "Survivor PC". You could read our archive online at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] http://www.egroups.com/group/survpc http://www.egroups.com/group/survpc_digest Posting address is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > 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 :) > 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. 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 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? ;-) > 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? ;-) --Eko ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:04:54 +0100 From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: DOS browser with DHCP support? 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 !!! ;-) -- Michael Polak, xChaos software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mobile phone - up to 160 characters) http://home.arachne.cz/ (WWW browser for DOS) http://webspace.n.cz/ (web hosting "www.firma.cz"/"firma.n.cz") ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
