Date: Sat, 22 Apr 95 20:46:10 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer) Cc: tom@haven.uniserve.com, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org, lloth@menzo.sojourn.com Subject: Re: yeah, what is the deal with this? Message-ID: <9504230246.AA10045@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <11598.798533809@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 21, 95 11:56:49 pm
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> > Dynamic addressing is very possible with SLIP and freebsd. Something > >like this: > > I should have said ``automated dynamic addressing''. I certainly would not > like to go through that procedure every time I wanted to read e-mail! > Long live automated PPP scripts! What standard mechanism is the remote end using to report the address you should use? 8-) 8-) 8-). Too bad you can't bring up ICMP before IP on SLIP. Otherwise you'd use DHCP in bootp to do it. Not that anyone has real DHCP support. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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