Does anyone have a PPP setup that works with an ISP that doesn allocate static IP addresses?
From Bill Studenmund (wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu): If you have a working ppp setup, YOU have a setup which works w/ dynamic addresses. Just don’t have an IP address set in your options file and the other end will tell you your address. Unless you do something silly like tell ppp to not negotiate the address. ppp works fine w/ dynamic addresses. Oh, and do set the “defaultroute” option for your dialup connection, and pppd will make it all work right. When you dial up, you will get a default route. When you quit the ppp link, the default route will go away. When you dial up again, you will get a (different but correct) default route again. To recap, your ppp chat file should end with the connection ready for pppd to take over. If you are using account name & password logins, the chat script should send them (possably with magic to keep others from seeing the pw in a text file). If you are using PAP or CHAP, the chat script should end just when PAP or CHAP authentication will happen. Bill
