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by **Richard J Shephe** » Mon, 13 Jan 1997 04:00:00

You know dip, the program for setting up IP connections? Is is
possible to set it up to use dynamically assigned IP addresses? And
if so, how?

Thanks for any help!

by **Chuck Simmon** » Mon, 13 Jan 1997 04:00:00

> You know dip, the program for setting up IP connections? Is is
> possible to set it up to use dynamically assigned IP addresses? And
> if so, how?

First, there is an ISP connection HOWTO at the Linux Documentation
Project and probably on newer distributions. This will let you get all
those configuration files set up. You have to have the loopback network
and you set the IP of your own hostname (not localhost) to 0.0.0.0 .

Getting the dip script right is a bit tricky at first but the man page
is good. Depending on your versions, you may have to upgrade dip and
pppd. Some of this is in the HOWTO. In any case, older versions of
pppd do not work and play well with 2.0.x kernels.

Use the sample script in the dip man page as a starting point and set it
up for your connection. There are good comments in the man page script.

Not everything will work with such a simple set up, for example talk
does not. However, I have gotten ftp, ftpd, Apache, telnet, Netscape
and so on to work well.

Chuck
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Configuring dip for dynamic IPs

Configuring dip for dynamic IPs

Configuring dip for dynamic IPs