From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 5 00:44:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA15758 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 May 1995 00:44:15 -0700 Received: from caern.protocorp.com (d4.leonardo.net [198.147.97.68]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA15750 for ; Fri, 5 May 1995 00:44:11 -0700 Received: from caern.leonardo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by caern.protocorp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA00490 for ; Fri, 5 May 1995 00:43:43 -0700 Message-Id: <199505050743.AAA00490@caern.protocorp.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: slattach!!!!!!! In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 May 1995 12:20:31 MDT." <199505041820.MAA16185@trout.sri.MT.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 00:43:42 -0700 From: "Mike O'Brien" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm curious about this whole reconnection thing. In all the PPP cases I know, the providers do dynamic address assignment, which means that if you use 'expect' to redial your provider, you have no idea what your hosts new IP address and/or name are going to be. How do you people handle this problem? Mike O'Brien