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Re: Dynamic IP



On Wed, 28 May 1997, Nir Soffer wrote:

> 
> 
> HUJI AFAIK doesn't use dynamic IP's, it has an IP per each modem in
> the modem pool as well.
> 
> (Check out the IP address you are assigned, and the terminal server you
> have connected to, and the tty you are on, you will find that there is
> quite a correlation :) )

True, same goes for TAU, and I guess that this exact comfiguration is the
common practice at all the providers in IL.

--Ariel

> 
>  Regards,
> Nir.
> On Wed, 28 May 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 27 May 1997, Constantin Eizner wrote:
> > 
> > > I need to use Linux station to give dynamic IP to user connected via
> > > network and not via Modem. I need somehow define IP`s pool and execute
> > > pppd for each user. What changes I have to make in system for it?
> > 
> > except for huji and a few other places, dynamic ppp is a dying thing, most
> > providers have a pool of modems that are used ONLY for ppp, so there is no
> > reason NOT to give a fixed IP per modem (which they do).
> > http://www.buoy.com/isp/ gives youall the exact details how to set this
> > up wth mgetty, it's 1-2 hours of work and works as smooth as a one line
> > "Hello World Perl script... well, ALMOST. :-)
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> 
> --
> Nir Soffer AKA ScorpioS. scorpios@cs.huji.ac.il
> "Power corrupts.  Absolute power is kind of neat"
>                 -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987
> 
> 

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   | Ariel Biener                                            |
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