From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 2 14:43:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14190 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 14:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA14165 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 14:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA03760; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 23:42:49 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA12408; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:10:38 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970602221032.NH28135@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:10:32 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: jwb@fore.com Subject: Re: ppp and static IP References: <199706021423.KAA01533@jwb.fore.com> <6339.865267497@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <6339.865267497@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Jun 2, 1997 09:04:57 -0700 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > In any case, you tell us absolutely nothing about how ppp actually > fails, so how are we supposed to help you? :-( Also, if dynamic IP works, i don't seen any problem why _not_ to use them. That's the good thing with PPP: you can leave the IP address open for negotiation, and it's just a matter of the other end which address to provide. This is probably best placed in -questions. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)