My original question was:
> Has anyone managed to get the ppp software that comes with solaris 2.4
> to work with dynamic ip addressing?
>
> On sunos4.1.3. I use slip and tip to dial into the provider. The
> scenario goes like this:
>
> login: heather%slip
> password: *********
> SL/ip session from (ip1) to ip2 beginning...
> ~$local comand? slattach -1 +c +i ip2 ip1
>
>
> Is there a similar way to do it with ppp?
>
> Thanks,
> Heather
It turns out there is a paper that describes this exact setup called
"outbound ppp setup guide for solaris 2.x" by mcknight@rbdc.rbdc.com
available from http://www.stokely.com/stokely. I got it working fine
after reading the paper.
Thanks to <murff@nicimg.com> for answering my question!
> From wolfe!nicimg.com!murff Sat Aug 12 19:19:55 1995
> Comments: Nicolet Imaging Systems, San Diego Ca.
> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 19:12:03 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Jim Murff, NIS" <murff@nicimg.com>
> X-Sender: murff@eng1
> To: Heather Scott <heather@metaxa.wimsey.com>
> Subject: Re: ppp, solaris2.4, dynamic ip addressing
> Mime-Version: 1.0
>
> hi;
> I have it working fine at home. the trick that isn't mentioned is to set
> up a dummy ip of 0.0.0.0. asppp will then look for a new ip upon
> connection. See an excellent paper on this subject "outbound ppp setup
> guide for solaris 2.x(mcknight@rbdc.rbdc.com)". its available from the
> web. I got it through http://www.stokely.com/stokely and follow your
> pointers.
> good luck;
> jim
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