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In article <74g9qk$46r$1@lios.apana.org.au>,
Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
>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?

It certainly doesn't happen under SunOS 4.1.4 for me! Are you sure
you've got both the modem "options" files and the Win95 TCP/IP setups correct?

>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.

ms-dns merely picks the DNS server. You need an option such as 
":10.0.2.3" or ":hostname.local.net" to actually set the IP address
for the dial-up machine. Re-read the pppd manual page....



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