From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 6 18:10:58 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA27977 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 18:10:58 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA27961 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 18:10:52 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA22028; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 11:06:23 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508070136.LAA22028@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Some questions To: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 11:06:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "-Vince-" at Aug 6, 95 06:19:52 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1452 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -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 [[