[ale] DHCP Invocation for PPP

Fri Oct 1 16:30:41 EDT 1999

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I had similar problems and settled on using ddup, this little utility
goes out gets your dynamic ip address (from ifconfig, I think) and sends
it to dyndns.org. Works fine for me, I also put it into the ip-up script
in etc/ppp. You can find a link to it from www.dyndns.org - look under
clients.

Malcolm

John Mills wrote:

>
>
> >> Can I invoke 'dhcpcd' to retrieve my host's
> >> configuration over the ppp link to the host?
>
> > No.  If you wanna get a dynamic IP over PPP you need
> > to use ICMP (I think that's the acronym).  It is the
> > way PPP assigns IP's.
>
> Sorry - I wasn't explicit. I need to obtain the IP address of the DNS
> dynamically: ideally when I open the 'ppp' link. 'dhcpcd' does the
> right stuff, but doesn't seem to work over 'ppp0'. The example scripts
> in /usr/doc/ppp-<version> don't seem to cover this, or at least I
> didn't recognize it as such.
>
>   John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
>   TGA Technologies, Inc.
>   100 Pinnacle Way, Suite 140
>   Norcross, GA 30071-3633
>   e-mail: jmills at tga.com
>   Phone: 770-441-2100 ext.124 (voice)
>          770-449-7740 (FAX)

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I had similar problems and settled on using ddup, this little utility goes
out gets your dynamic ip address (from ifconfig, I think) and sends it
to dyndns.org. Works fine for me, I also put it into the ip-up script in
etc/ppp. You can find a link to it from www.dyndns.org - look under clients.
Malcolm
John Mills wrote:
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>> Can I invoke 'dhcpcd' to retrieve my host's
 >> configuration over the ppp link to the host?
> No. If you wanna get a dynamic IP over PPP you
need
 > to use ICMP (I think that's the acronym). It
is the
 > way PPP assigns IP's.
Sorry - I wasn't explicit. I need to obtain the IP address
of the DNS dynamically: ideally when I open the 'ppp' link. 'dhcpcd' does
the right stuff, but doesn't seem to work over 'ppp0'. The example scripts
in /usr/doc/ppp-<version> don't seem to cover this, or at least I didn't
recognize it as such.
 John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
 TGA Technologies, Inc.
 100 Pinnacle Way, Suite 140
 Norcross, GA 30071-3633
 e-mail: jmills at tga.com
 Phone: 770-441-2100 ext.124 (voice)
 770-449-7740
(FAX)</blockquote>
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