Howard,
Are you certain about this??
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:34:14 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Eisenberger) wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:35:20 -0500,
<snip on dynamic DNS stuff from Seywood>
> Exactly. LSPPP gets the DNS numbers as part of the PPP negotiation
> and writes them to IP-UP.BAT. EPPPD does not do this.
> This is not the same as BOOTP. When you use BOOTP with EPPPD (and
> LSPPP?), BOOTP requests are intercepted by the packet driver and
> don't go to the server. This is why it is called fake or simulated
> BOOTP. Thus, in order to use BOOTP with EPPPD for DNS, you must put
> the DNS numbers in pppdrc.cfg (or similar) before loading EPPPD.
> In order to use real or server-side BOOTP, you have to use PPPD.
I use EPPPD. I also use BOOTP. I don't need to use it when I login,
because I have a fixed IP address and go that route.
However when I use the Clarke University FTP and TELNET programs, they
don't know I have anything ... and *they* use BOOTP to connect and
obtain "server side" information, like DNS.
If, as you state, BOOTP requests are intercepted by the packet driver,
then could you please explain how the software manages to get the
information necessary to connect and do all nice things necessary like
send commands, transfer files, etc?
Is everything on my website simulated files because I only have
"simulated BOOTP" ???
Believe me, I don't even have a pppdrc.cfg file ... and the stand-alone
FTP and TELNET programs I use don't read any configuration files I might
have, and don't create or need any CFG files of their own.
Maybe you're thinking about how Windows works???
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