Re: Is there a networking guru in the room?

["Karlis Loen" <obelisk@c-cubedinc.com>]

DHCP will too work on dial up lines.  But only on a very few servers
actually use it.

It CAN work, it's just a pain in the @$$ to setup.  :)  At least, when I
thought about doing it, it was.  (And none of my ISPs have ever done it here
in the US.)

-Obelisk

----- Original Message -----
From: JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>
To: <independence-l@independence.seul.org>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 6:10 PM
Subject: Is there a networking guru in the room?


>
> I have seen that Suse uses wvdialconf for PPP config but in addition
> it uses some closed source black magic who allows them to guess the
> DNS used by the ISP without any user input.  And it works.  How is
> that possible?  It must be related to DHCP but DHCP is not supposed to
> work on seral lines.
>
> --
> Jean Francois Martinez
>
> Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
> http://www.independence.seul.org
>
>