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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Yow!  Crosspost overkill!  Please try to limit posting to one or two
lists.  Thanks!

On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, zerodist wrote:

> I use a dial up phone to dial up to my ISP. Both my ISP and I got ip
> addresses 
> randomly. To do automatic routing, I use Ip style as follows in ppp.conf
> and 
> ppp.linkup.
>     ifconfig 203.70.2.66/24 203.70.2.4/24 in ppp.conf

Are you sure you want to hardwire this?

>     add 0 0 203.70.2.4/24 in ppp.linkup

Change this to 'add 0 0 HISADDR' and it should work better.
(HISADDR==other side's IP address, MYADDR=IP address assigned to
your/local side)

I've had trouble getting ppp.linkup to execute properly, but that may be
my fault.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major