From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 20:08:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA28983 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA28916 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA01398 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:09:38 -0400 Message-Id: <199604170309.XAA01398@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: dynamic ppp To: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:09:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from Barry Masterson at "Apr 16, 96 08:43:07 pm" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Barry Masterson wrote... > > On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, David Paul Yeske wrote: > > > what should I have in /etc/sysconfig for hostname if I have a dynamic ppp > > address? Er, nothing. If your using either pppd or (preferably) iijppp (a.k.a ppp) the ip address stuff is resolved at connection time, not boot time. I have a static address (through the same ISP as Barry...:-)), but even that has no impact on my /etc/sysconfig. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key