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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:10:56 +0100
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From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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To: Gordon Wang <guelph@tpts5.seed.net.tw>
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Subject: Re: PPP interface setting
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Gordon Wang said:
>questions:--------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Hostname: Gordon.my.domain ( I set hostname to Gordon.my.domain.
>			     I think it's right)
>
>Domain name: my.domain     ( I think it's right,too.)
>
>Gateway:???????  (About Gateway, Should I ask my ISP sevice company?
>                  Or this can be left empty?)
>
>
>Name server:????? (Should I put in the IP address of the server which
>                   I connected to every time I browsed around the web
>                   in the win95 environment?)
>
>
>IP address:???????( What IP address should I put here?)
>
>
>Netmask:255.255.255.0 (I think this is corrct,just like  what I put in  
>                       Win95. )
>

Your ISP should have told you what to use for all of these.  If you had
everything working for Win95 you can just copy the settings from there.  I
think all the parameters have the same names in the Win95 networking setup.

Making up your own values will almost certainly fail.

	Scott

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