Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 14:03:22 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@parody.tecc.co.uk> To: sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble connecting to an ISP with SLIP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951217134726.185A-100000@parody.tecc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9512130502.D3631Yc@edmbbs.iceonline.com>
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On Wed, 13 Dec 1995 sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com wrote: > The ISP assigns a different IP address each time I log on. Am I supposed > to use ifconfig to set the new IP address I've been given, then use > slattach? I tried to do that, but ifconfig says "unable to assign > requested address". I have no idea whether or not I have my config files > set up properly. SLIP doesn't usually support querying the other machine to find out your IP address. There are a few "extensions" to SLIP that do, but I don't believe the FreeBSD implementation is one of them. PPP (assuming it's available) is the obvious solution to this problem. James Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'
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