From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 22 19:53:06 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA11331 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:53:06 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA11319 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:53:03 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA10045; Sat, 22 Apr 95 20:46:11 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504230246.AA10045@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: yeah, what is the deal with this? To: gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 95 20:46:10 MDT Cc: tom@haven.uniserve.com, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org, lloth@menzo.sojourn.com In-Reply-To: <11598.798533809@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 21, 95 11:56:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.