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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
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