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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Software detection of link integrity
In-Reply-To: <62967.961624079@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jun 21, 2000 11:47:59 pm"
To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> >> But a dial on demand line is a layered concept.  You have a transient
> >> physical line with a layer on top of it which pretends to be a
> >> permanent line.
> >
> >Which unfortunately doesn't work with a dynamically assigned IP 
> >number.
> 
> That is a different story alltogether...

On the InterJet, if it's dynamic IP and there is no other IP address
to use, we actually make one up! Once connected, we renumber the
interface of course.

-Archie

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