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From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
To: Zgebura Stefan <zgebura@vuepp.sanet.sk>
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Subject: Re: Dynamic IP adress for PPP server.
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I'd like to hear any suggestions, too. The best I can see is this:

If you're using ppp it's most likely dial-in. If you assign an IP address
to each port, then whatever port your user dials into gets the IP assigned
to the port. The only other experience I've had with this is IBM's ppp
which assigns a number out of a pool, but the net effect seems the same.
The only advantage to this is when you have several phone lines on a
rotary.

If you have a DHCP situation, I'm as mystified as you. 

-- Jay

On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Zgebura Stefan wrote:

->I am looking for some advice or documentation about the configuration
->PPP server and Dynamic IP adress. I am running PPP server using pppd
->with fixed IP adress and I want to run client with floating  IP adress.
->I tried to configure bootpd, but it doesn't work properly.
->If a configure client with fixed IP adress everything working properly.
->Please if you have any experience please send me some advice.
->Thanks.
->
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