At 15:36 08/11/2004 -0500, Frank Engel wrote:
Y?
Actually, DHCP and PPPoE are completely different types of protocols; both could theoretically be used together. DHCP is basically a way to get an IP address for yourself (along with info such as DNS addresses, default router, etc.) over an existing IP network. PPPoE is a way to bridge two separate networks across a third network, without allowing that third network access to either of the other two. These are completely different things, so I fail to understand what you are trying to determine here?
Let me make a guess .....
Although PPPoE can be used as a bridging medium, its most common usage nowadays is in consumer broadband connections, where the broadband connection itself is ethernet, but the ISP uses PPPoE to set up a PPP connection to the consumer - and hence can use their existing Radius (or other authentication system).
So for a consumer DSL connection, most are either
a. straight Ethernet - typically using DHCP to allocate an IP address b. PPPoE
Can you distinguish between them ?
I know OSX is a bit different from other Unixes, so this may be wrong ....
If straight Ethernet + DHCP, I'd expect ifconfig to tell me about interfaces called en0, en1 or similar (sometimes e0, e1, etc)
If PPPoE, I'd expect to see those PLUS one or more called ppp0, ppp1, etc.
Not fully reliable, since you could have serial lines with ppp configured in addition to your ethernet interfaces - but it may help you get started on interpreting the ifconfig output.
-- Alex.
On Nov 8, 2004, at 15:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone tell me if there's a way in Mac OS X to determine whether the user is currently connected via DHCP vs. PPPoE? Some sort of unix shell command perhaps? I've looked at the "ifconfig" command, and it spits back a lot if interesting info, but nothing jumps out at me to denote "DHCP" vs. "PPPoE". _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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