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Re: SLIP question




On Tue, 26 Sep 1995, Shay Rojansky wrote:

> > 1. TCPMAN (as well as many other SLIP programs) supports 'bootp', which
> > is an option to get the address of your gateway and of your own IP
> > address (i think also address of name server, but i'm not sure), which is
> > equivalent to PPP's negotiations.
> 
> Hmm... Interesting. And dip doesn't support this negotiating? Sounds weird.

at least not till version 3.3.7b-uri - the sources indicate of no such 
option.
however, see note below...

> > 2. a similar trick can be done using dip provided the remote system sends
> > you the IP addresses in text mode. hint: the gateway address doesn't
> > matter AT ALL.
> 
> Well, yeah, but besides being a pain, this is a per-setup solution.

ANY login script is a per-setup solution. since on each setup you have a 
different negotiation sequence to follow. the idea is the a single site 
will have a single such sequence.

> > 3. i've witnessed cases when SLIP worked while PPP did not.
> > rare, but seems to happen.
> 
> Actually, I have no reason to prefer SLIP, since HUJI provides both and
> PPP works great. Reason is, I'm trying to work on automated solutions
> to PPP and SLIP configuration, and this thing's giving me the headache.
> Oh well. Thanks anyway.

you get it automated. but you need one script per each site you're 
handling (and usually those scripts are rather similar, unless you have a 
complex setup, or a very robbust script). it'll be the same also if you 
use PPP.

guy