At 11:34 PM 11/21/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>Den 19 Nov 99, kl. 12:24, skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>success. He screwed it up himself by using Win98, so I don't really think it
>is his ISP's job to fix this mess...
No, if they support win98 then they should provide assistance to get it
setup properly.
>Stupid question: what is DHCP?
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Also known as dynamic IP server. It
is from this that you get your ip address, wins, and dns.
>Re DNS: I made an experiment myself regarding the DNS-settings. I
>changed them (in Windows 95) to something random, but everything was
>working as usual anyway! I guess Win95 first tries to configure DNS-
>addresses automatically (it should normally obtain the addresses directly
>from the server) and only if this fails, falls back to the manually entered
>addresses.
The DHCP is why. It dynamically assigns the DNS too.
>How come this doesn't work in DOS (Arachne, Bobcat et.al.)? Is it very
>difficult to implement, or is it just a feature lacking in DOSPPPD? What
>about Linux? Does it auto-configure DNS-addresses?
Depends on how it's setup and whether is CAN dynamically recieve from the
DHCP. Bobcat does it, I've used it.
>less they know about configuration issues. Instead they supply pre-
>configured CD-ROMs with M$IE. The big ISPs are for the John Does,
>whereas people who would like to try non-mainstream products like Lynx,
>Arachne or Linux and perhaps try to connect to the Internet with a
>computer which is older than a year and a half had better stick to smaller
>ISPs.
It's a heck of a lot cheaper, especially on a large scale.
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