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Re: SLIP question
On Tue, 26 Sep 1995, guy keren 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.
> 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.
> 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.
Shay
The chance of an event happening is inversly
proportional to the general desire of it
doing so.
-Murphy