Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 00:45:17 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Some questions Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950808000616.13473D-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508070136.LAA22028@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > I know but the later book does seem to cover the DNS pretty well... > > Not well enough 8) That's true since the TCP/IP book doesn't tell what those numbers fpr the SOA record means... > > I do understand but you didn't get what I was saying... PPP on the > > client machine will ask the server which is SLiRP for the ip address so > > SLiRP for each user needs to have some kind of config file so that it won't > > be using the wrong ip address that someone else is supposed to use... > > No, _you_ don't understand. SLiRP does _SLIP_. That's what the name is for. > And the addresses for each user can all be exactly the same, > _it_doesn't_matter_. I know but SLiRP does PPP as well... I was refering to PPP and not SLIP. > > > OS/2 Warp, Winsock, etc installed on user's machine. Configured for some > > > totally irrelevant address. > > > I know what you mean but even with my current ppp connection on > > my FreeBSD boxm it asks the remote for my ip address so SLiRP will need > > to have a config file for each user so it doesn't use the wrong address... > > Don't make assumptions. Read the documentation, understand how the real > thing works. I already did many monthes ago and it said there was some config file you put in the user's homedir... Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center
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