From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 12:37:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA18617 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 12:37:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from parody.tecc.co.uk (parody.tecc.co.uk [193.128.6.83]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA18598 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 12:37:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by parody.tecc.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00205; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 14:03:24 GMT Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 14:03:22 +0000 () From: James Raynard To: sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble connecting to an ISP with SLIP In-Reply-To: <9512130502.D3631Yc@edmbbs.iceonline.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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'