PPP 2.3.x and Win95 can't automatically set up remote IP address

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 00:00

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Hi,

I'm running a small dial-in server (Sparc LC running SunOS 5.6) here, and I
use Paul Mackerras' ppp-2.3.5 package to provide PPP support. Every person
calling in who's using Win95 for PPP has to manually start PPP after logging
in, rather than using automatic start up because their machines are unable
to automatically retrieve the IP address they're allocated during the
startup phase of their PPP sessions.

Is this a know problem with ppp-2.3.x, and if so, what's the fix?

I already have two ms-dns lines in the main 'options' file that pppd reads.
but it doesn't seem to change anything. I don't know if it's something
broken in Win95 that's actually fixed in Win98, but that could be a
possibility.

TIA for any advice you can offer.

Regards,

Craig.
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From: cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Subject: PPP 2.3.x and Win95 can't automatically set up remote IP address
Date: 1998/12/07
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