Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 11:06:23 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Some questions Message-ID: <199508070136.LAA22028@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950806181622.8170D-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> from "-Vince-" at Aug 6, 95 06:19:52 pm
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-Vince- stands accused of saying: > I know but the later book does seem to cover the DNS pretty well... Not well enough 8) > I do understand but you didn't get what I was saying... PPP on the > client machine will ask the server which is SLiRP for the ip address so > SLiRP for each user needs to have some kind of config file so that it won't > be using the wrong ip address that someone else is supposed to use... No, _you_ don't understand. SLiRP does _SLIP_. That's what the name is for. And the addresses for each user can all be exactly the same, _it_doesn't_matter_. > > OS/2 Warp, Winsock, etc installed on user's machine. Configured for some > > totally irrelevant address. > I know what you mean but even with my current ppp connection on > my FreeBSD boxm it asks the remote for my ip address so SLiRP will need > to have a config file for each user so it doesn't use the wrong address... Don't make assumptions. Read the documentation, understand how the real thing works. > -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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